Filomena Chirico
DG CNECT
European Commission
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.
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