Marco Migliorelli is an economist at the European Commission and a senior associate researcher at the IAE of the University Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (Sorbonne Business School). He holds a PhD from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. His research interests include cooperative banking, sustainable and green finance, and financial instruments innovation.

Eric Lamarque is the dean of the IAE of the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Sorbonne Business School) where he is also full professor and director of the research chair Management and Governance of Financial Cooperatives. He is the president of the IAE France. For 12 years he was member of the board of a cooperative bank in France.