Juan E. Castañeda is Director of the Institute of International Monetary Research and a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Buckingham. He has worked with the European Parliament's Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs and has been an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in Cass Business School, visiting researcher at the Centre of Monetary and Financial Alternatives at Cato, and lecturer at UNED University in Madrid. He is a member of the IEA's Shadow Monetary Policy Committee.

Alessandro Roselli is a visiting fellow at Cass Business School, City University, London and at the University of Buckingham, UK. He has spent most of his career at the central Bank of Italy and has been A.C. Jemolo fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. He has written extensively on banking, finance and economic history.

Geoffrey E. Wood is Professor in Monetary Economics, University of Buckingham and Emeritus Professor in Economics, Cass Business School. He has lectured in Economics at the University of Warwick and in Banking and Finance at City University, London, where he has been Professor since 1986. He worked at the Bank of England as Economist, and later as Special Adviser on Financial Stability.