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Patrick Dumont is professor at the School of Politics and International Relations of The Australian National University in Canberra. He is co-editor of the Routledge Research on Social and Political Elites book series, was the co-founder of the ECPR Standing Group on Elites and Political Leadership and co-convener until 2022, as well as chair of IPSA’s Re-search Committee on Elites (RC02) from 2018 to 2023.
Raphaël Kies is senior researcher at the University of Luxembourg. He holds his PhD from the European University Institute. He is interested in deliberative democracy, electoral studies, democratic innovations, and media studies. He is the founder of the Luxembourgish Platform of Participatory Democracy (PLDP.lu). He has contributed to implement and review several democratic innovations in Luxembourg and abroad. Among them, the European Citizens Consultation (in 2007 and 2009), the voting advice applications Smartwielen.lu (since 2009). In the field of the media, he is the in charge of the national Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM) the project MEDIALUX and he is a member of the board of directors of Luxembourg public radio (radio 100.7).