Ulrich Bindseil joined Deutsche Bundesbank in 1994 and the ECB in 1999. He has been the head of risk management, the head of market operations, and since 2019 the head of market infrastructures and payments. He has been an honorary Professor at TU Berlin since 2010.
Alessio Fotia has studied philosophy at the University of Trento in Italy, and Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is a student in the M.Sc. Economics programme.