CERRE Breakfast: Is opening up platforms the way to European innovation?

As the CERRE Director of Research, Zach Meyers has a wide remit, including managing our cross-sectoral programmes and projects.

Previously the assistant director of the Centre on European Reform, Zach Meyers has a recognised expertise in economic regulation and network industries such as telecoms, energy, payments, financial services and airports. In addition to advising in the private sector, with more than ten years’ experience as a competition and regulatory lawyer, he has consulted to several governments, regulators and multilateral institutions on competition reforms in regulated sectors. He is also a regular contributor to media.

Zach holds a BA, LLB and a Master of Public & International Law from the University of Melbourne.

Carmelo Cennamo is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Copenhagen Business School, where he is the Director of the Digital Markets Competition Forum; Affiliate Professor at SDA Bocconi School of Management, where he is the Director of the Platform Economy & Regulation monitor. A frequent keynote speaker in academic and corporate events, he is a leading expert on competition in digital platform markets, and on business ecosystems. On competition policy, Carmelo has provided comments and authored different articles on digital platforms regulation, and was one of the three experts invited by the European Parliament committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) to review the EU Digital Markets Act.

Carmelo holds a PhD in Strategic Management from IE University, a Master of Science in Economics and BA in Economics and Law from Bocconi University.