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Paolo Ponzano is a senior fellow at the RSCAS and a special adviser of the European Commission.
Former collaborator of Altiero Spinelli at the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, he has
worked for the European Commission from 1971 to 2009. He was formerly Director for Relations
with the Council of Ministers, subsequently for Institutional Matters and Better Regulation. He was
also Alternate Member of the European Convention in 2002/03. He has published around 45 articles
in several European journals, such as the Revue du Droit de l’UE, Il Diritto dell’Unione europea
and the Review of European Affairs as well as a chapter on the ‘Institutions of the EU’ in Genesis and
Destiny of the European Constitution (Bruylant, 2007) and a chapter on the European Parliament’s
powers in the book 50 years of European Parliament (1958-2008). He teaches European Governance
and European Social Policy at the European College of Parma as well as European Law at the Lumsa
University of Rome.
Pippo Ranci is part-time professor in the Florence School of Regulation and Chair of the Board
of Appeal in the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER). He directed the
Florence School of Regulation from its inception until September 2008. He is a professor at the Università
Cattolica in Milan. He has been president of the Italian Regulatory Authority for Electricity
and Gas (1996-2003), a co-founder and vice president of the Council of European Energy Regulators
(2000-03), and often a consultant to the Italian government (1972-93) on issues of economic
policy. His research interests and publications are in regulation, industrial and energy policy, and
non-profit organisations.
Olivier Roy holds the Joint Chair in Mediterranean Studies with the RSCAS and the Department of
Social and Political Sciences and directs the ReligioWest project, funded by the European Research
Council. He has been a senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, a
professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and a visiting professor at the University
of California, Berkeley (2008-2009). He headed the OSCE’s Mission for Tajikistan (1993-94)
and was a consultant for the UN Office of the Coordinator for Afghanistan (1988). His field work
included Political Islam, Middle East, Islam in the West and comparative religions. He received
an Agrégation de Philosophie and a Ph.D. in Political Sciences. He is the author of Globalized
Islam (University of Chicago Press, 2004), and more recently of La Sainte Ignorance (Seuil, 2008),
which has been translated into English (Holy Ignorance, Columbia University Press), Italian (Santa
Ignoranza) and German (Heilige Einfalt). He is presently working on ‘Islamic norms in the public
sphere’ and on the globalization of religions.
Anna Triandafyllidou, part-time professor at the RSCAS, is also a senior research fellow at the
Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens and a visiting professor
at the College of Europe in Bruges. She has held teaching and research positions at the University
of Surrey (1994-95), London School of Economics (1995-97), Consiglio Nazionale per
le Ricerche in Rome (1997-99), New York University (2001), Bristol University (2001-02) and
Democritus University of Thrace (2007-2010). During the last ten years she has coordinated more
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