Enrico Giovannini

Enrico Giovannini is an Italian economist and statistician, currently serving as a full professor of Economic Statistics and Sustainable Development at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He holds a degree in Economics from the Sapienza University of Rome (1981).
Dr. Giovannini has held several prominent public and international roles:
Chief Statistician and Director of the Statistics Directorate at the OECD (2001–2009) where he led reforms of the global statistical system.
President of the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) (2009–2013), during which he advanced measurement of well-being beyond GDP.
Minister of Labour and Social Policies in the Italian Government (April 2013–February 2014) and later Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility (February 2021–October 2022). 
In addition to his academic and public service career, he is a Co-Founder and Scientific Director of the Italian Alliance for Sustainable Development (ASviS) (established 2016) and an active member of international committees on sustainable development, well-being, and data for policy.
Dr. Giovannini’s work focuses on the intersection of statistics, sustainable development, and public policy — particularly how societies measure and promote equity, resilience, and environmental sustainability.

Ebba Hansmeyer
Ebba Hansmeyer is Founding Director of the Society for Progress. She was based previously at INSEAD's Abu Dhabi campus where she managed a portfolio of research and development projects. She has had research and project management roles in the private and public sector (including NGOs and the United Nations). She studied economic history at the London School of Economics, and Arabic at the American University of Beirut, and holds degrees in Philosophy from the Institut Catholique de Paris, and Human Rights Law from the University of Hong Kong. She is married with three young daughters.
Peter Joos
Peter Joos is a Professor of Accounting and Control and the Deputy Dean and Dean of Faculty at INSEAD. He holds the Barons Janssen Endowed Professorship and the Sauvage Family Endowed Chair for Academic Excellence. 
Prior to returning to INSEAD in 2014, he held faculty positions at Baruch College, the MIT Sloan School of Management and Chicago Booth. He also served in industry as Global Head of Valuation and Accounting in the Equity Research department of Morgan Stanley (Hong Kong and London). He was an elected member (2012-2019) and co-chair (2015-2017) of the Capital Markets Advisory Committee (CMAC) that advises the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) on the practical implications for users of financial statements of its intended standard proposals.
His research focuses on the capital market effects of accounting information, including topics such as the valuation of firms reporting losses, analysts’ forecasting behaviour, and more recently the capital-market effects of ESG disclosures. He teaches financial accounting, firm valuation and sustainability-related accounting topics, and has been the recipient of Outstanding Teaching Awards at INSEAD. Peter holds a PhD in Business and an MSc in Statistics from Stanford University. 
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher is John Dewey Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University.
Before coming to Columbia, he taught at the University of California, San Diego, and before that at the University of Minnesota. Early in his career, he was primarily interested in philosophy of mathematics and general philosophy of science. During the late 1970s, he became very concerned with the philosophy of biology. That concern led him to investigate not only conceptual and methodological issues in biology, but also questions about the relations of biological research to society and politics. During the 1990s, his interests broadened further to embrace the role of scientific inquiry in democratic societies. Since coming to Columbia, that line of investigation has been further elaborated in relation to pragmatism (especially William James and John Dewey). Part of this work advances a program for naturalistic ethics. Professor Kitcher also developed a program of research in philosophical themes in literature and music, focusing so far on Joyce and Wagner, and, in a recent book, on Thomas Mann and Mahler. He has recently written books on Moral Progress, on philosophy of education, and on John Stuart Mill. What's the Use of Philosophy? explores the question posed in the title.