Dr Constantin Gurdgiev, Adjunct Lecturer in Finance Trinity College, Dublin and Smurfit School of Business, UCD. Head of Research at St Columbanus AG, Non-Executive Member, Investment Committee at GoldCore ltd and an Advisory Board Member (Non-Executive) at HeinzGAM. [...]

Peter Brown is the main lecturer and Managing Director of the Irish Institute of Financial Trading (IIFT). He is also a financial commentator across various media channels. As Executive Chairman of IIFT, Peter has been at the vanguard of developing training courses for would-be participants of the financial markets. [...]

Deirdre de Burca is a former Green Party Senator (2007-2010) and former National Spokesperson for the Green Party on European Affairs. She is a former Green Party Representative on the All Party Oireachtas Committee on EU Affairs and its National Delegate on the National Forum for Europe 2002-2007. [...]

Dan O'Brien is economics editor of the Irish Times. Before joining the newspaper in June 2010, he was a senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information and forecasting arm of The Economist Newspaper Group. In a dozen years in that role he specialised in European affairs and in global trade and investment issues. [...]

Ray Kinsella received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. (Econ.) from the University of Hull and PhD from Trinity College Dublin (TCD. He worked as an Economist in the Central Bank of Ireland, and Economic Advisor to the Department of Industry and Commerce. [...]

Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is a member of the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, having previously, from 1987-2005, been its Deputy Director. Until his retirement in 2002 he had been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE since 1985. [...]