The Future of Ride-Hailing in Europe

Georgina Santos is a CERRE Research Fellow and Reader at the School of Geography and Planning of Cardiff University.

An economist, she is interested in environmental and transport economics and public policy. She has conducted research on environmental taxes for air and road transport and on delays at airports and traffic congestion on roads, and more recently, on shared mobility.

Georgina Santos holds a first degree in Economics from Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina), an MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics from the University College London and a PhD in Economics from Cambridge University.

Jean-Louis Colson is Head of Unit at the Directorate General for Mobility and Transport of the European Commission, in charge of road transport since 1 January 2021. He graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris. He joined the Commission in 1985 and was appointed Head of Unit in DG Competition in State aid control in 1997. He moved to DG Transport and Energy in 2008.

Dr. Enguerrand Marique is currently an associate professor at the Université catholique de Lille (FR) and guest lecturer at UCLouvain (BE). He teaches business law and new technology law. After completing a master’s degree in law at UCLouvain and an additional master’s degree in international commercial law in California, in 2021 Dr. Enguerrand Marique defended a thesis on digital platform law entitled “Building Trust in Digital Platforms via legal tools: new roles and new responsabilities for public authorities and private entities”.

From 2020 to 2025, dr. Enguerrand Marique was universitair docent at Radboud University (NL), where he taught digital single market law and dispute resolution in a digital environment.

His research focuses mostly on the regulation of digital technologies, particularly in cases where their civil applications adversely affect citizens’ or consumers’ trust (in the technology deployer). He is interested in how governance mechanisms can be innovatively designed to rebuild and sustain this trust, especially in environments where transparency and accountability are at stake (data, platforms and AI). This includes examining the role of EU regulatory frameworks in mitigating the erosion of trust and ensuring that digital technologies are deployed in ways that respect ethical principles and reinforce public confidence.

Another strand of his research focuses on digital sovereignty and the critical role public authorities play in fostering a distinctly European digital ecosystem. He explores how regulatory and policy measures can strengthen Europe’s autonomy in the digital realm while balancing innovation, competition, and ethical considerations. This includes examining the interplay between digital sovereignty and global digital governance, highlighting how European public authorities can shape frameworks that safeguard European values and promote trust in a connected world.

Raluca Marian is the Director, EU Advocacy & General Delegate – International Road Transport Union (IRU), where she leads the Brussels based team and is in charge of advocacy for the entire commercial transport by road, including mobility of people and goods. Regarding people mobility, this means advocating for bus, coach and on demand last mile mobility, such as taxi. Regarding goods mobility, this includes all road freight transport and logistics matters as well as their multi-modal connectivity and drive to digitalisation. Prior to joining IRU, for over 10 years Raluca was a competition and regulatory lawyer in Norton Rose Fulbright’s team in Brussels, where she advised on a broad range of competition areas, such as merger control, investigations, abuse of dominance, horizontal and vertical agreements and State aid law. On the regulatory side, her focus has been transport regulation and market access.

Aurélien is Chair of Move EU, the European ride-hailing platform association, which he co-founded. As Senior Head of public policy for Western Europe and EU at Bolt, the leading European shared mobility platform, he is one of the best experts of European ride-hailing regulation. He strongly believes that ride-hailing has a role to play in offering European citizens a flexible, safe and efficient transport service in addition to other shared mobility options, contributing to the decrease of individual car usage. As such, Move EU advocates for a better regulatory level playing field for the ride-hailing sector in the EU.