ShaPE

Emilio Gabaglio is a former Italian trade union leader. In 1969, he was elected national president of the Italian Christian Workers' Associations (ACLI). In 1972, he found work as head of the CISL's international department. In 1983, he joined the CISL's national secretariat, becoming the federation's leader on regional and environmental policy and internal organisation, and from 1989 on European policy. In 1991, Gabaglio was elected General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation.

Fausta Guarriello is a full professor of Italian and European labour law at the University of Chieti-Pescara. She has extensive research experience in the field of social dialogue, information and consultation, workers' rights and industrial relations. She has taken part in numerous research projects at national and international level, including coordination and management roles. A member of numerous academic networks, she is co-director of the Giornale di diritto di lavoro e di relazioni industriali.

Marco Cilento is responsible for institutional policy at the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). After obtaining a doctorate in labour law from the University of Pavia, he began his trade union career with the Italian trade union confederation CISL.

DoctorSalvo Leonardi at the University of Rome, he is a Senjor researcher at the Fondazione Di Vittorio, where he is responsible for the field of industrial relations. A member of many international research networks, including Eurofound and the European Trade Union Research Institute (TURI), he has promoted, coordinated and participated in numerous European projects on collective bargaining, participation and trade union policies. He is the author of numerous publications in academic labour law and industrial relations journals.

Roberto Pedersini Full Professor of Sociology of Economic Processes and Work at the University of Milan. He has extensive research experience in the field of economic and labour sociology, with a particular focus on industrial and labour relations. He has taken part in numerous research projects at national and international level, including coordinating and directing roles. He has worked with the International Labour Office (ILO), the European Commission, the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and the Conseil national de l'économie et du travail (CNEL). He has been Director of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan since October 2020.

Claire Kilpatrick has been Professor of Law at the EUI in Florence since June 2011, Director of the Academy of European Law at the EUI since 2015 and Dean of Studies at the EUI from 2019 to 2022. Before joining the EUI, she worked at the LSE, the University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Bristol. Her main interest is in the legal and political construction of social Europe, in particular the roles of the EU. She is the principal investigator of the ShaPE project. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Industrial Law Journal, the International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations and the Giornale di diritto di lavoro e di relazioni industriali.

Filip Dorssemont holds a chair in labour law as a full professor at UCLouvain. Filip Dorssemont holds a doctorate in law (University of Antwerp, 2000). His thesis focused on the legal status of trade unions and their freedom of collective action in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Germany. He was a researcher and lecturer at Utrecht University (2002-2008). In 2008, he was awarded an FNRS Ulysses grant to conduct research and set up a research group at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain).

Ricardo Rodriguez Contreras has extensive professional experience focusing on EU labour law, comparative industrial relations, social dialogue and collective bargaining, and the implementation of social legislation. For many years he has carried out training activities for multinational companies and European works councils. He has worked at Eurofound as research director on the implications of technology and digital change for employment relations and has published a large number of reports on the implementation of European labour law and tripartite social dialogue.

Giuseppe Casale is a former director of the ILO-Geneva, the ITC-ILO Turin and the Turin School of Development. He is Honorary President of the International Society of Labour Law and Social Security, Geneva. He is professor of international labour law at the University of Bologna and visiting researcher at Ca' Foscari University in Venice. He is a member of several European and international scientific and research committees. He is the author of numerous publications on international and comparative labour law, social dialogue and industrial relations, labour relations, labour administration and labour inspection, and OSH issues.

Philippe Pochet is currently a research associate at the Observatoire Social Européen and a member of the Green European Foundation. He was Director of the Observatoire social européen (Ose) (1990-2007) and then General Director of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) until 2023. He is also visiting professor at the College of Europe and affiliated professor at the Sant'anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa.

He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Berkeley, Madison (Fulbright in residence), Montréal, London School of Economics and political science, and Griffith University. His research interests have focused on social Europe, social dialogue, the social impacts of economic and monetary union and the social challenges of climate change.

Tea Jarc is Confederal Secretary of the ETUC. In the years 2019-2022, she was president of the ETUC Youth Committee, advocating quality jobs for young people, quality internships and apprenticeships and a strengthened youth guarantee. She comes from Slovenia, where she was president (2017-2023) of a trade union Sindikat Mladi plus, which brings together and represents young unemployed people, young precarious workers, students and high school pupils.