Linda Hantrais FAcSS is Emeritus Professor of European Social Policy at Loughborough University, UK, and a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests span international comparative research theory, methods, management and practice, with particular reference to public policy and institutional structures in the European Union, and the relationship between socio-demographic trends and social policy.

Marie-Thérèse Letablier is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Emeritus Senior Research Fellow at the Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne-UMR 8174, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her research focusses on family policy, intergenerational relations and the work¿family relationship in France, from an international comparative perspective.