A new effective governance for data sharing

Bruno Liebhaberg* is Director General of the think tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE). In 2018-2021, he was the first Chairman of the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy.

He was a professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles’ Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (SBS-EM ULB) from 1979 to 2018. Earlier in his career, he advised former European Commission President Jacques Delors on industry and R&D matters.

He holds a Master in Management Sciences from SBS-EM ULB and a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

*Representing B.Liebhaberg S.A.

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.

Andrea Tóth works as a legal and policy officer at the Data Policy and Innovation Unit within DG CNECT, at the European Commission in Luxembourg. Her work focuses on the implementation of the European Data Strategy of 2020, and on the development of the legislative proposals as part of this process.

She holds an LL.M. degree in Intellectual Property and Information Law from the University of Houston and she is also currently a Ph.D. candidate at Eötvös Loránd University.

Nicholas Blades is Director of Regulation, Competition & Data Policy, responsible for a multi-disciplinary regulatory team based in Madrid, Brussels and London.

His regulatory responsibilities include sector regulatory frameworks, spectrum policy and specialist economic analysis, while his competition and data policy functions span mergers and competition law policies, copyright, data privacy and audio-visual media services.

He joined O2 UK in 2004 and has undertaken a variety of regulatory and management roles within the business, always with a strong strategic focus.

Alexandre de Streel is Academic 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). Since April 2021, he is also the Chair of the EU Observatory on Online Platform Economy.

He is a Hauser Global Fellow at New York University (NYU) Law School and visiting professor at the College of Europe and SciencesPo Paris, 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.