Data Access and Algorithmic Transparency Rules in the DMA-DSA: An Overview

Prabhat Agarwal is Head of Unit “Digital Services and Platforms” at the European Commission’s DG CONNECT.

He comes from a background of academic and industrial research, covering a broad range of fundamental science and commercial high-tech projects. He joined the European Commission in 2007 and has since then covered a variety of digital innovation and regulatory areas.

He holds a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Cambridge.

Chloe Colliver is Head of Industry Developments for Online Safety at Ofcom, the UK’s communications regulator. She leads Ofcom’s work building an evidence base for the upcoming Online Safety regulation. Chloe is a leading expert on disinformation and foreign interference online. She previously led the Institute for Strategic Dialogue’s digital analysis unit, which researches hate speech, terrorism, disinformation and foreign influence around the globe. Chloe has advised governments and tech companies on policies to promote online safety, including contributing to the development of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism and providing expert testimony to the UK Home Affairs Select Committee, the Swedish, New Zealand, Canadian, French and German governments. She has been featured on CNN, the BBC, Sky News, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Bloomberg.

Laura Edelson is a Postdoctoral Researcher with Cybersecurity for Democracy at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. Laura studies online political communication and develops methods to identify inauthentic content and activity. Her research has powered reporting on social media ad spending in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Atlantic. Prior to her current time in academia, Laura was a software engineer for Palantir and Factset. During her time in industry, her work focused on applied machine learning and big data.

Inge Graef is an Associate Professor at Tilburg University. She is affiliated to the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) and the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). Inge holds expertise in the areas of competition law, platform regulation and the governance of data-driven innovation. She is also appointed as a member of the European Commission’s expert group to the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy.

Filippo Lancieri is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ETH Zurich Center for Law & Economics and a Research Fellow at the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Filippo’s work focuses on the challenges associated with the development of a cohesive regulatory framework for the digital economy. His focus is mostly on understanding the law in action: how different policies and enforcement actions can change behavior on the ground.

Benoit Loutrel is a board member of ARCOM, the French audiovisual & digital media regulator, since 2021. He leads ARCOM’s involvement in the implementation of the Digital Services Act. Previously, he worked on digital transformation for an internal consultancy of the French government. He is a former Director General of ARCEP, France’s electronic communications and postal services regulator. He previously spent eight years at the World Bank in infrastructure financing and was (briefly) public policy director for Google France for a few months in 2017. He studied industrial economics and regulation at Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE, and Toulouse School of Economics.

Alexandre is Director, Public Policy in the Brussels office of the Computer & Communications Industry Association. He is primarily responsible for CCIA’s advocacy on data policies, online privacy, government data access, cybersecurity, and telecoms. Alexandre holds a LL.M. in EU and human rights law from the University of Essex (UK).

Alexandre de Streel is the Academic Director of the digital research programme at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He sits in the scientific committees of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), the European University Institute-Centre for a Digital Society (Italy) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).

His main research areas are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regularly advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union, and the European Commission. He has also been the chair of the expert group on the online platform economy, advising the European Commission.

Karen Melchior is a Danish member of the European Parliament. Her parliamentary activities include coordinating the Renew Europe members of the Committee on Legal Affairs. She is also member of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality and Substitute Member of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

As an MEP, Karen is invested in the regulation of digitalisation, platforms and AI. She is an advocate for digital rights and consumer protection in the era of digitalisation.