Francesco Giavazzi is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and Visiting Professor at MIT. He is the coauthor (with Alberto Giovannini) of Limiting Exchange Rate Flexibility: The European Monetary System (MIT Press, 1989).

Ilan Goldfajn is Professor of Economics at Pontificia Unversidade Cátolica do Rio de Janeiro and a partner at Gavea Investimentos. He was Deputy Governor for Economic Policy at the Central Bank of Brazil from 2000 to 2003.

Santiago Herrera is a Lead Economist at the World Bank. He was Deputy Minister of Finance and Director of the National Budget Office in Colombia.