Jon Kvist is a professor of European Public Policies and Well-being at Roskilde School of Governance, Institute for Social Science and Business, Roskilde University. Kvist has published widely on the Nordic welfare model, inequality, social investments, Europeanization and methods, including a recent book on private welfare (Frihed, Lighed og Privat velfærd with co-author Jesper Brask Fischer). Kvist has been on various Danish government Commissions , including most notably on Reforms (Reformkommissionen), Social Policy (Ekspertudvalget på det sociale område) Minimum Income Benefits (Ydelseskommissionen), and unemployment insurance (Dagpengekommissionen). He also sits as an expert and a country coordinator in the European Commission’s European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet). He has chaired and participated in numerous international research projects and working groups.
Femke Roosma is Professor by special appointment at the Dr. J.M. den Uyl chair at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Professor Sociology at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands. She conducts research into the welfare state and social policy, and how these can ensure better social security and more social cohesion in society. In particular, she studies multiple dimensions of welfare attitudes, solidarity and deservingness perceptions and trust in the context of the welfare state. Her leading research interest is how we can strengthen the legitimacy of the welfare state.