Frédéric Allemand is a graduate from Sciences Po, Paris, and holder of a DEA (postgraduate diploma) in Community Law. He is currently coordinator of the EIS department at the CVCE, where he specialises in Community institutional law and economic governance law. He is in charge of three research projects at the CVCE, the first on Economic and Monetary Union, the second on the institutional system of the European Union and the third on the reform of the European treaties from 1951 to 2013.

He previously worked in the ECB's legal department, at the Secretariat-General for European Affairs (attached to the office of the French Prime Minister), at the French Senate and for several think tanks.

Laurence Maufort holds a Master's in Law from the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). She is a scientific collaborator and legal expert in the CVCE's European Integration Studies Department. She is involved in the development of research projects linked to the historical and institutional development of European organisations, particularly two projects on the reform of the European treaties from 1951 to 2013 and the institutional system of the European Union.