Tech, Media, Telecom

Claire-Marie joins as a project manager to lead, plan and oversee the delivery of our research projects in the digital and mobility sectors. Before joining CERRE, she worked for GSMA, the industry organisation that represents the interests of mobile network operators worldwide, where she held various positions including EU Public Policy Manager following regulations on mobile telecommunication in Brussels, and Project Manager for Mobile Connect, the online authentication and identification service provided by mobile operators globally.

Earlier in her career, Claire-Marie worked at the OECD in Paris, following ICT policies for the Business and Industry Advisory Committee. She also interned at the GSMA Development Fund in India and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bolivia.

Claire-Marie received her MSc in Global Politics from the London School of Economics (LSE), after completing her studies in International Relations with German at the Kent University and the Freie Universitaet Berlin (FUB). She is a French native speaker with excellent language skills in English, German and Spanish.

Marc Bourreau is a Academic Co-Director at CERRE and Professor of Economics at Telecom 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.

Alexandre de Streel is Professor of European law at the Universities of Namur and Louvain in Belgium. He is Academic Co-Director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) and the Director of the Research Centre for Information, Law and Society (CRIDS), focusing his research on Regulation and Competition Law in the network industries.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) at the European University Institute in Florence and Research Fellow at European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) in Maastricht.

Alexandre regularly advises international organisations (such as the European Commission, European Parliament, OECD, EBRD) and national regulatory authorities on regulatory and competition issues in network industries. He is also an Assessor (member of the decisional body) at the Belgian Competition Authority.

Jan Krämer is Professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he holds the chair of Internet & Telecommunications Business.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he also headed a research group on telecommunications markets.

His current research interests include the regulation of telecommunications and Internet markets, as well as digital ecosystems and data-driven business models.

Miriam Buiten is a Junior Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on the legal issues surrounding new technologies and artificial intelligence and the role of consumer policy and competition law in regulating the digital economy.

Prior to joining the University of Mannheim, Miriam was affiliated to the Rotterdam Institute of Law and Economics.

Miriam has been involved in several policy studies for the European Commission and the Dutch government on topics such as the role of online intermediaries in the ecommerce sector and mechanisms to reduce regulatory burdens.

Sally Broughton Micova is a CERRE Research Fellow and a Lecturer 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. 

Prior to joining UEA, she was an LSE Teaching and Research Fellow in Media Governance and Policy and Deputy Director of the LSE Media Policy Project in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE.

Michèle Finck is a Research Fellow at CERRE and a Senior Research Fellow at the Munich-based Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and a lecturer in EU law at Keble College (University of Oxford) (since 2013). Michèle’s research focuses primarily on digital platforms, artificial intelligence and blockchain technology as well as EU law.

She studied law at King´s College London, the Sorbonne and the Florence-based European University Institute when she got an LLM degree. She also has a doctorate in law from the University of Oxford. She was a visiting researcher at New York University in 2013-14 and a fellow at the London School of Economics in 2015-17.

Richard Feasey is a CERRE Research Fellow and an independent consultant who advises clients in the communications industry.

In October 2017, he was appointed by the UK Business Secretary of State to the panel of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and in October 2018 by the Economic Secretary of the Welsh Assembly to the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.

He lectures at University College London and Kings College London.

He was previously the Public Policy Director of the Vodafone Group.

Wolter Lemstra is a CERRE Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at Delft University of Technology.

His research interests are the development of the telecoms sector in relation to firm strategy and government policy, and the role of governance regimes and the institutional environment.

He has previously held senior management positions in the field of engineering and product management, sales and marketing, strategy and business development.

Professor Martin Peitz is a CERRE Senior Research Fellow and Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim. He is also a Director of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation.

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

Martin holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Bonn.

Pierre Senellart is a Professor and Deputy head of the Computer Science Department at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Télécom ParisTech.

His research interests focus around practical and theoretical aspects of Web data management, including Web crawling and archiving, Web information extraction, uncertainty management, Web mining, and intensional data management.

Pierre is an alumnus of ENS and obtained his M.Sc. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) in computer science from Université Paris-Sud.

Before joining ENS, he was an Associate Professor (2008–2013) then a Professor (2013–2016) at Télécom ParisTech. He also held secondary appointments as Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong in 2012–2013 and as Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore in 2014 to 2016.