Digital Platforms Summit

An economist by training, Alberto Bacchiega joined the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition in 2000. He has since then held a number of positions enforcing State aid and merger control in the telecoms, financial, pharmaceutical and chemical sectors. Since November 2021 he has been leading the directorate ‘Information, Communication and Media’ of DG COMP, which covers also the implementation of Digital Market Act.

George Gryllos Studied Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and holds a Master’s Degree in EU Law from the above University. He practiced law as an attorney in Greece and became Legal Secretary (référendaire) at the Court of First Instance (now General Court of the EU) in 2004. He is a Legal Secretary at the Court of Justice of the EU since October 2021. He served under Judges S. Papasavvas (2004-2010), N. J. Forwood (2010-2015) and D. Gratsias (2015-present). He is experienced in Competition law, State aids, IP Law, Taxation, External commercial relations, Chemicals and judicial review in various other regulatory matters.

Since September 1, 2018, Martijn Snoep has been the Chairman of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). Mr Snoep obtained his law degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Until his appointment at ACM, he worked at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek for 28 years. Operating from both their Amsterdam and Brussels locations, Mr Snoep gave advice to businesses about the application law in the Netherlands and abroad. As managing partner, he stood at the helm of the firm between 2010 and 2016.

Rita Wezenbeek is Director of Platforms Policy and Enforcement in DG CONNECT. The Platforms Directorate is in charge of policies and regulations applicable to online intermediary services, including the supervision of the implementation and enforcement of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act (the latter jointly with DG COMP). These two new Regulations establish strong rules to ensure a safe, fair and open platform economy for European citizens and businesses, and give the Commission significant regulatory powers over “gatekeepers” and very large platforms and search engines.

Rita joined the European Commission in 2002. Before moving to DG CONNECT in December 2020, she was the head of the units dealing with Anti-Trust and Telecommunications (2017-2020) and Retail Financial Services and Payment Systems (2010-2017) in DG Competition.

Before joining the Commission, Rita worked for sixteen years as a private lawyer, specialized in European and corporate law, in a Dutch/ Belgian law firm. She also was a Member of the Commission on European Integration, an independent advisory body on foreign policy to the Dutch government and Parliament.

Kush Amlani is Global Competition & Regulatory Counsel at Mozilla, leading the competition work. Prior to joining Mozilla, Kush was a Senior Competition & Regulatory Lawyer at the BBC for five years, based in London. He joined the BBC from SJ Berwin LLP (later Kings & Wood Mallesons) where he worked on competition cases in sectors such as energy, media, telecoms and pharmaceuticals, including the pay-for-delay cases before the European Commission and the Court of Justice. Kush studied law at the University of Warwick and Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.

Antoine is a Deputy Head of Unit in the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition in the directorate J in charge of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement. Previously, Antoine worked in the area of merger control focusing on digital and telecom transactions. Before joining the European Commission, Antoine worked as an associate in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Competition Law department in Brussels and as a case handler in the French Competition Authority. Antoine is a visiting lecturer at Sciences Po Paris.

Lucia Bonova heads a unit at the European Commission responsible for the implementation of Digital Markets Act and antitrust enforcement in the area of digital platforms. She holds a law degree from Université Panthéon-Assas in Paris and an LLM in International Business law from McGill University in Montreal. Lucia spent her entire professional career devoted to competition law enforcement, in particular merger control, and to a lesser extent, antitrust.
Previously, she served in the private office of the Executive Vice-president of the European Commission for Competition and Europe fit for Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager. In addition to her experience at the European Commission, in 2009 Lucia spent three months at the Federal Trade Commission as an exchange official. Lucia was featured amongst 26 women at the forefront of global antitrust in GCR Women in Antitrust 2016 : Enforcers and in 30 in their 30s Notable Women Competition Professionals in Enforcement in 2017.

Marc Bourreau is a Academic Co-Director at CERRE and Professor of Economics at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). He is affiliated with the interdisciplinary institute for innovation (i3) for his research.

His research focuses on competition policy and regulation, digital markets, and telecommunications.

Marc holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris Panthéon Assas.

Camilla Bustani is Director, International at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, where she is responsible for Ofcom’s international strategy across the sectors it regulates. She has been actively engaged in European regulatory debates for the last 15 years, prior to which she worked as a lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP in London for 8 years.

She got her bachelors’ degree from Harvard University and a masters’ degree from Columbia University, and a law degree from Oxford University.

Sally Broughton Micova is a CERRE Academic Co-Director and an Associate Professor in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She is also a member of UEA’s Centre for Competition Policy.

Her research focuses on media and communications policy in Europe.

She completed her PhD in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), after which she was an LSE Teaching and Research Fellow in Media Governance and Policy and Deputy Director of the LSE Media Policy Project.

Chiara Caccinelli is Deputy Head of the Economic Analysis and Digital Affairs Unit at Arcep (the French regulator for electronic communications, postal and print media distribution services) and Co-chair of the Digital Markets WG at BEREC. From 2019 to 2022 she co-chaired BEREC’s Market and Economic Analysis WG. Before joining Arcep and BEREC, Chiara was Deputy to the Director of the Governance and Regulation Programme and the Club of Regulators in Paris (2015-2019), and simultaneously carried out academic research on economic and competition challenges in the digital economy. Previously, she was Programme Manager and Research Associate at the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute, 2011-2015) and Analyst and Consultant in European Affairs in Milan and Brussels (2009-2010). Chiara holds an MSc in Economics of Network Industries and Digital Economy from Paris Dauphine University – PSL, and an MA in European Affairs from the University of Perugia.

Filomena Chirico leads the Unit in European Commission’s DG Connect in charge of the implementation of the Digital Markets Act within the Platforms Directorate. Prior to that, she was expert member of the Cabinet of Commissioner for Internal Market and Digital Thierry Breton, where she was responsible for the preparation and negotiations of the new EU digital regulations, the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. In the European Commission she has also been for several years a case handler in DG Competition in the ICT area.

Before joining the Commission, she was assistant professor at Tilburg University, affiliated with the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC). She holds a Master’s Degree in law from Luiss University, a Master’s in law and economics from the universities of Rotterdam, Hamburg and Berkeley and a PhD in institutional economics from La Sapienza University. Her academic work focused on regulation and competition in the telecoms and digital sectors, including Internet governance and network neutrality, as well as on the economics of contract law. Besides her position in the European Commission, she is currently also visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges for the seminar on the Digital regulation of the single market.

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.

Richard Feasey is a CERRE Senior Adviser, an Inquiry Chair at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and Member of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.

He lectures at University College and Kings College London and the Judge Business School.

He has previously been an adviser to the UK Payments Systems Regulator, the House of Lords EU Sub-Committee and to various international legal and economic advisory firms.

He was Director of Public Policy for Vodafone plc between 2001 and 2013.

Amelia Fletcher CBE is a Professor of Competition Policy at the Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia and co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics. She also acts as an expert witness.

She has been a Non-Executive Director at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (2016-2023), Financial Conduct Authority (2013-20) and Payment Systems Regulator (2014-20), and a member of Ofgem’s Enforcement Decision Panel (2014-2022). She has also been a member of DG Comp’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy, and was a member of the Digital Competition Expert Panel, commissioned by the UK Treasury and led by Jason Furman, which reported in March 2019.

She was previously Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (2001-2013), where she also spent time leading the OFT’s Mergers and Competition Policy teams. Before joining the OFT, she was an economic consultant at Frontier Economics (1999-2001) and London Economics (1993-1999).

She has written and presented widely on competition and consumer policy. In her ongoing research, Amelia has a particular interest in the implications for competition and consumer policy of behavioural economics and online markets.

Amelia has a DPhil and MPhil in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford.

A Swiss and Canadian national, Daniel Friedlaender has been working in public affairs and policy for over 20 years. He holds an MA in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe, as well as an executive MBA from Imperial College, focusing on digital innovation and platform convergence.

Daniel Friedlaender started as a political staffer in Canada prior to moving to Europe, first working in strategic communications before representing the global recording industry.

In 2016 he was hired to open and lead the new office of the Sky Group (later part of Comcast) in Brussels. As Head of the EU Office and Sky’s European Affairs Director, Daniel Friedlaender worked across the creative, cultural, telecoms, and technology sectors. In this role, he also chaired the European VoD Coalition and sat on the board of the Association of Commercial Television, as well as many other organisations.

Jaime Gonzalo is the COO of Aspiegel, a European company in charge of managing the Digital Ecosystem of AppGallery (subsidiary of Huawei). Among his responsibilities, he leads the Product & Business Strategy, Go-to-Market and Performance of all Mobile Services in the region. The main mission of this team is to grow the user´s value perception and engagement to the AppGallery ecosystem through a series of high-quality on-device services and best-in-class content, such as Apps, Games, Cloud Storage, Navigation, and a Privacy-by-design Browser and Search engine.

Prior to this position, Jaime worked at Google, as Head of Google Play Apps & Games in EMEA in 2015-2016, coordinating all Play Store activity for titles such as Clash Royale, Candy Crush and Hearthstone. From 2009-2015, he served as Director of Business Planning & Operations at Electronic Arts Mobile at a global level, participating in the launch of top successful games such as FIFA, Need for Speed or The Sims. From 2005-2009, he was Mobile Distribution Manager at Activision-Blizzard, working with top popular franchises such as World of Warcraft. In 2004-2005 Jaime was a Producer of Mobile Games at Gameloft.

Jaime holds a PhD “Cum Laude” in Videogame and Digital Content Business, an MBA in the INSEEC Business School of Paris, and a double Bachelor’s Degree in Science from the Universities of Spain and the Netherlands, having performed his Engineering University project in Bosch-Siemens. He is also a member of the Mensa High IQ society. For more information about Aspiegel, please visit Aspiegel.com.

Julian Jaursch is a project director at the not-for-profit think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (SNV). He analyzes approaches to platform regulation in the German, European and transatlantic context and develops policy recommendations that can be used by political and civil society decision-makers.

Jan Krämer is an Academic Co-Director at CERRE and a Professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he holds the chair of Internet & Telecommunications Business.

Previously, he headed a research group on telecommunications markets at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he also obtained a diploma degree in Business and Economics Engineering with a focus on computer science, telematics and operations research, and a Ph.D. in Economics, both with distinction.

He is editor and author of several interdisciplinary books on the regulation of telecommunications markets and has published numerous articles in the premier scholarly journals in Information Systems, Economics, Management and Marketing research on issues such as net neutrality, data and platform economy, and the design of electronic markets.

Professor Krämer has served as academic consultant for leading firms in the telecommunications and Internet industry, as well as for governmental institutions, such as the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the European Commission.

His current research focuses on the role of data for competition and innovation in online markets and the regulation of online platforms.

Bruno Liebhaberg is Executive Chairman of the think tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) which he founded in 2010.

From 2018 to 2021, he was also the first Chairman of the European Union Observatory on the Online Platform Economy. He is also an Honorary Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles’ Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM ULB) where he taught from 1979 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he advised former European Commission President Jacques Delors on industry and R&D matters related to the completion of the EU Single Market.

He holds a Master’s in management sciences from SBS-EM ULB and a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

¹Also representing B.LIEBHABERG S.A., Director General

²Member of the Strategic Committee

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.

Aurélien is in charge of public policy in Europe for the Internet privacy company and search engine DuckDuckGo. In his role, he advances the company’s vision to raise the standard of trust online by working towards a fairer and easier access to simple privacy protections. Prior to joining DuckDuckGo, Aurélien was a consultant at APCO Worldwide, advising technology companies on EU policies and engagement.

Georgios is a Public Policy Senior Manager at Google. He is working in a wide range of global economic issues with a particular focus on competition in the digital markets and the economic impact of technology. He joined Google from the European Parliament where he spent five years dealing with intellectual property files. Georgios holds a law degree from UCLouvain and an LLM from the University College London.

Giorgio Monti is a CERRE Research Fellow and Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School.

He began his career in the UK (Leicester 1993-2001 and London School of Economics (2001-2010) before taking up the Chair in competition law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2010-2019). While at the EUI he helped establish the Florence Competition Program which carries out research and training for judges and executives. He also served as Head of the Law Department at the EUI.

His principal field of research is competition law, a subject he enjoys tackling from an economic and a policy perspective.

Together with Damian Chalmers and Gareth Davies he is a co-author of European Union Law: Text and Materials (4th ed, Cambridge University Press, 2019), one of the major texts on the subject. He is one of the editors of the Common Market Law Review.

Chris Riley is a global internet policy and technology executive and scholar, currently working as the executive director of the nonprofit Data Transfer Initiative and as a distinguished research fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was senior resident fellow for internet governance at the think tank R Street Institute, director of policy at the Mozilla Corporation, and a senior internet freedom program manager at the U.S. Department of State, among other positions. Chris has published in computer science, law, and technology policy; taught at the American University’s School of International Service and Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Computer Science; and guest lectured at the Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford Law School, and other institutions. He has worked on tech policy in D.C. and San Francisco and managed teams based in those cities as well as Brussels, New Delhi, London, and Nairobi. Chris earned his bachelor’s in computer science from Wheeling Jesuit University, his Ph.D. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Fiona M. Scott Morton is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management where she has been on the faculty since 1999.  Her area of academic research is industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition.

The focus of her current research is competition in healthcare markets and the economics of antitrust. From 2011-12 Professor Scott Morton served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis (Chief Economist) at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she helped enforce the nation’s antitrust laws.

At Yale SOM she teaches courses in the area of competitive strategy and antitrust economics. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-10 and has won the School’s teaching award three times. She founded and directs the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a vehicle to provide more antitrust programming and policy projects to Yale students.

Professor Scott Morton has a BA from Yale and a PhD from MIT, both in Economics. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences across the United States and Europe.

Audrey is Vice-President Government Affairs at Qualcomm. Audrey’s main activities focus on Technology and Geopolitics in Europe. She oversees strategic public policy files and advocacy efforts and is leading policy engagement with EU institutions in Brussels.

Audrey is former Vice-Chair of the Amcham EU Intellectual Property Rights Committee and is Board member of the European Internet Forum. Audrey joined Qualcomm in 2014 after having worked in the public and private sectors for over 12 years and returned to Qualcomm in mid-2020 after having led the European Commission team at Google. Initially working for the French government’s European Affairs Service, advising the Prime Minister’s office, the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Culture and Communication,

Audrey had led the Government Affairs team of BlackBerry in Brussels for 5 years. She holds postgraduate degrees in European and International Law from La Sorbonne, and in International Relations from the University of Pantheon-Assas, Paris. She also completed the Executive Management Acceleration Program of INSEAD. Audrey is based out of Brussels, and had previously lived in Toronto, Paris, Fort-de-France, Abidjan, and Djibouti. Audrey has a seven-year-old daughter and enjoys spending time with her English bulldogs, her Pomanese and her cat. She is a big fan of martial arts and has just started training for boxing.

Max von Thun is the director of Europe & transatlantic partnerships at the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly think tank. He leads Open Markets’ research and advocacy in Europe, alongside efforts to foster greater transatlantic collaboration on tackling monopoly power.