Giuliano Bonoli holds a PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury (UK), obtained in 1998 for a study on pension reforms in Europe. Before taking up his Chair at IDHEAP in 2005, he worked for various Universities in the UK and in Switzerland, including the University of Kent at Canterbury, the University of Bath, and the University of Fribourg. He is Professor of Social Policy at the Swiss graduate school of public administration (IDHEAP). David Natali's work deals with the comparative analysis of social protection reforms across Europe, on the role of the European Union in the field of social protection. In 2002, he obtained a Phd in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute of Florence. He is member of the OECD Working Party on pension markets. He is also member of the European board of ESPAnet (European Network of Social Policy Analysis). He is Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, R. Ruffilli Faculty of Political Science in Forli.