Tech, Media, Telecom

Lara Natale* is CERRE’s Director for Tech, Media, Telecom and Mobility. She leads the think tank’s research and activities related to these sectors.

Most recently, Lara co-led the Tech, Media, Telecoms practice at FTI Consulting in Brussels, providing strategic EU public policy and regulatory counsel to global businesses.

Prior to that, Lara was attachée at the (then-named) UK Permanent Representation to the EU in Brussels, negotiating digital, culture, skills and other legislation. She also led the Brussels secretariat of a migrants’ rights NGO network, worked in two Westminster-based think tanks on UK social policies and in UK management consulting, and spent time teaching English in several countries, including Japan.

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Claire-Marie Healy* is Senior Project Manager at CERRE, leading, planning and overseeing the delivery of our research projects in the Tech, Media, Telecom 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.

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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.

Alexandre de Streel is Academic Co-Director at CERRE and a professor of European law at the University of Namur and the Research Centre for Information, Law and Society (CRIDS/NADI). He is a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School and visiting professor at the European University Institute, SciencesPo Paris and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, and also assessor at the Belgian Competition Authority.

His main areas of research are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. Recently, he advised the European Commission and the European Parliament on the regulation of online platforms.

Previously, Alexandre worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission (DG CONNECT). He holds a Ph.D. in Law from the European University Institute and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Louvain.

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.

Miriam Buiten is Assistant Professor of Law and Economics at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. She was previously 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.

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.

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.

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 Senior Advisor within the CERRE Tech, Media, Telecom academic team, an independent consultant and a Senior Adviser to the Payment Systems Regulator in the UK.

He lectures at University College London and Kings College London.

Richard was previously the Public Policy Director of Vodafone Group plc from 2001 until 2013.

In October 2017, he was appointed to the panel of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and in October 2018 to the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales.

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 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 a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

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.