Vice-Presidend Šuica has been leading the Commission’s work on deliberative democracy and the Conference on the Future of Europe, giving people a say on how the EU is run and what it does. She previously served as a member of the European Parliament from 2013 to 2019. She served two consecutive terms as mayor of Dubrovnik in Croatia, her native country, between 2001 and 2009.

As Director-General at the JRC since 2020, Stephen is particularly focused on modernising organisational culture and passionate about communication and the interface between policy and technology. Stephen’s career spans more than 30 years in the European civil service, including previous posts as Director-General of Taxation and Customs Union (TAXUD) and Director-General for Informatics (DIGIT), driving the digital transformation of the Commission.

Anne is a demographer, currently leading the Population and Just Societies program at IIASA. The project produces new insights into current and future populations, to understand human impacts on ecosystems and simultaneously, the impact of environmental changes on human wellbeing, down to sub-populations.

Raya is a principal investigator of the European Research Council consolidator grand project 'Population Dynamics under Global Climate Change' (POPCLIMA). Her main research areas include demographically differentiated vulnerability, looking at the differential impacts of natural hazards / climate change and the ability to respond to and cope with consequences of extreme weather events. She has also worked on attitudes toward climate change, green voting and pro-environmental behaviours.

Daniele is the scientific coordinator of the University of Florence ‘Population and Society Unit’. His research focuses on family demography, social demography and life course. In 2020, he received the Dirk J. van de Kaa Award for Social Demography from the European Association for Population Studies.

Fabrizio is project leader responsible for the research activities on demography at the Demography and Migration Unit of the EC Joint Research Centre. His more recent research focuses on the relationship between urbanisation and demography at the global level, climate change-induced migration and territorial aspects of ageing and depopulation in the EU. He is the lead author of the report on “Demography and climate change – EU in the global context” launched at this event.

Fabiana is the Head of Unit of the Demography and Migration Unit of the EC Joint Research Centre since April 2022. The Unit operates the Commission’s Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography. Fabiana counts over 15 years of working experience on foresight, in particular managing and applying foresight to specific policy context and topics.