A new effective governance for data sharing

Bruno Liebhaberg is Director General 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 in Management Sciences from SBS-EM ULB and a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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 the Academic Director of the digital research programme at CERRE and Professor of European law at the University of Namur where he chairs the Namur Digital Institute (NADI). Alexandre is also visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. Besides, he chairs the expert group on the online platform economy advising the European Commission and is a part-time judge 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.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, European University Institute in Florence, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union and the European Commission.