Karel Van Hulle is Emeritus Professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven and Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Goethe University Frankfurt. He joined the European Commission in 1984, where he held responsibilities for company law, financial reporting, corporate governance, and auditing. In 2004, he became Head of Insurance and Pensions and was made responsible for the development of Solvency II. He represented the European Commission within EIOPA and the IAIS. After retiring from the European Commission in 2013, he served as member of the Public Interest Oversight Board (until 2021) and was appointed member of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority.Prof. Van Hulle's contributions to insurance regulation and financial supervision have earned him numerous honours, including being named a Distinguished Fellow of the IAIS in 2013, a Distinguished International Lecturer in Accounting by the American Accounting in 2000, and an Honorary Fellow of the IFoA in 2014.Helmut Gründl is Professor, Chair of Insurance, and Director of the International Center for Insurance Regulation at Goethe University Frankfurt. Before joining Goethe University, Prof. Gründl held the Chair of Insurance and Risk Management at Humboldt University in Berlin from 1999 to 2010. Presently, he teaches courses in corporate finance, insurance economics, as well as asset and liability management of insurance companies, and conducts research that aims to strengthen the scientific basis for regulatory decisions.Mirko Kraft is Professor of Insurance Management at Coburg University, where his teaching and research focuses on Solvency II, risk management, sustainability, and AI/digitalization in insurance. Prior to his academic career, Prof. Kraft worked in the risk management department of the German Insurance Association (GDV), which included a secondment to Brussels. He is a member of the EIOPA Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG) and actively contributes to academic and regulatory discourse internationally.