Foundational Technologies Governance Summit

Benoît Coeuré is President of the Autorité de la concurrence since January 2022. He is a graduate of the Ecole polytechnique and the Ensae, Benoît Coeuré also holds a Master of Advanced Studies in economic analysis and policy and a degree in Japanese. He started his career at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies before joining the Directorate General of the Treasury as economic advisor to the Director. Deputy Director General of the Treasury between 2009 and 2011, he lead the foreign trade support policy and general reflection on France’s economic policy as Chief Economist. As a member of the Executive Board and of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank from 2012 to 2018, he was responsible for market transactions, market infrastructures supervision and European and International relations. He chaired the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures of the Bank for International Settlements for six years where he focused on the digitisation of payment systems, the rise of crypto assets and the emergence of tech giants in financial services. In 2019, Benoît Coeuré took over as head of the innovation division of the Bank for International Settlements.

Since October 2020, Mathieu Michel has been Secretary of State for Digitalization, in charge of Administrative Simplification, Privacy and the Buildings Administration. Previously, he held the position of President of the Provincial College of Walloon Brabant for 8 years, from 2012 to 2020. He was in charge of heritage management and digitalization. Together with the Walloon Brabant Property Development Agency, he was responsible for the development of new large-scale ‘New Place of Working’ (NPOW) projects.

And, in terms of digital technology, Mathieu Michel has worked on the digitalization of the entire territory, turning the 27 communes of Walloon Brabant into true “smart cities”. It is also with the objective to further digitize the provincial schools that they have been fully equipped with the latest computer equipment. Artificial intelligence is one of his priorities in this area. His objective is to mark Belgium’s position as a European leader in the field of AI, particularly in the field of health and energy. He is keen to demystify the use of new technologies and advocates for transparency as an essential component of technological innovation and the algorithms on which it is based.

Responsible for Privacy, Mathieu Michel has taken the initiative to evaluate the Belgian Privacy Act. His ambition is to strengthen the protection of our data and the fight against harmful content. Finally, as a member of the government responsible for the Buildings Administration, he has decided to give Brussels back the pride of its ambition to be the heart of Europe and has made the renovation of the Brussels Court house one of his priorities. For this symbol of the capital of Belgium and Europe, which marks the skyline of Brussels, Mathieu Michel has expressed his ambition to remove the scaffolding that has been installed since 40 years as of 2024.

Carlota Reyners Fontana is Director in charge of the enforcement of antitrust, merger and state aid rules in the field of information technology, communications and media in the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission since 1^st August 2023. She previously worked for 8 years in DG CONNECT (the Directorate general for communications networks, content and technology) in charge of policy and legislative proposals in the electronic communications sector, leading legislative projects such as the Digital Decade Policy Programme for 2030, the draft proposal for a Gigabit infrastructure Act, the European electronic communications Code or initiatives in the area of spectrum and broadband funding and deployment. Between 2012 and 2014, she was Member of cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner responsible for Digital Agenda. She has previously worked as case handler in the Commission’s Competition Directorate General as well as a competition lawyer in a leading European telecommunications company and a Brussels based international law firm. She holds a law degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master in European law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Ms Lucilla Sioli is the Director for “Artificial Intelligence and Digital Industry” within Directorate-General CONNECT at the European Commission. She is responsible for the coordination of the European digitisation of industry strategy and for policy development in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors, including regulatory approaches such as the AI Act and the Chips Act. The directorate also supports R&D&I in key digital industrial technologies including microelectronics, photonics, robotics and AI. Lucilla holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton (UK) and one from the Catholic University of Milan (Italy) and has been a civil servant with the European Commission since 1997.

Werner Stengg is a digital expert at the European Commission. Prior to fulfilling responsibilities as a member of Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager’s Cabinet, he was Head of Unit in various DGs since 2006, responsible for E-commerce and online platforms, for postal and public interest services, and for better regulation and economic analysis. His experience within the European Institutions also includes positions in DG Budget, in DG Enterprise, and the European Council of Ministers. He holds a doctorate in commerce and economics from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration.

Pierre Chastanet is Head of the Unit for Cloud and Software in the European Commission and oversees the development and implementation of the European policies on Cloud and Free Flow of Data.

Mr. Chastanet has been working for 16 years at the European Commission in various management and policy development assignments, in the areas of cybersecurity, digital privacy, ICT for societal challenges, green ICT, and telecom innovation.

Prior to that, Mr. Chastanet gained more than 11 years of ICT experience, mostly in various IT management positions in a large multinational company.

He holds an MSc in Telecommunication Engineering from Telecom ParisTech, an M.A. in International Politics from the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak is the Head of the Unit “Interactive technologies, Digital for Culture and Education” since January 2018.  The Unit’s mission is three fold: to foster the wider use of extended reality technologies in industrial and societal domains; to support the development of data spaces in key areas such as cultural heritage, tourism and media; and to support the uptake of advanced digital skills throughout the EU. Rehana is the coordinator of the EU initiative on Web 4.0 and Virtual worlds published by the European Commission in July 2023. In her previous position at the European Commission, Rehana was the deputy Head of the Unit responsible for Learning, Multilingualism and Accessibility. Prior to it, she was closely involved in the development and follow-up of the European regulatory framework on audiovisual media and the Commission’s strategy on Data. Rehana holds a degree in finance and economics and a master in actuarial science.

Solange Viegas Dos Reis is Chief Legal Officer. She has joined OVHcloud in September 2022 after more than 20 years in telecommunications and worldwide tech companies (LDCom Networks, Neuf Cegetel, SFR, Believe), leading teams and activities based in Europe, MENA, Asia and Americas. With a strong experience in tech environments and knowledge of local and global challenges that companies have to face when active in different jurisdictions, Solange knows how to develop effective strategies to maximize performance and support business growth.

Tobias Haar, born in Stuttgart in 1972, has been working as a lawyer since 1999 after studying and completing his legal clerkship in Heidelberg. He also holds international degrees in Legal Informatics (LL.M.) and Business Administration (MBA). He initially worked in the Communications, Media & Technology department of the major international law firm Clifford Chance until 2005. Since then, he has been an in-house lawyer and headed the legal departments at Gameforge (Karlsruhe) and Omio (Berlin), among others.

Since 2023, he has been General Counsel at the European AI startup Aleph Alpha, based in Heidelberg, and has been successfully leading its 500m USD Series B financing. He lectures on IT law issues at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) and the Popakademie in Mannheim, among others. He has been publishing IT law articles in iX – the magazine for professional information technology – for over 20 years. For several years, he was Chairman of the Board of game – Verband der deutschen Games-Industrie e.V. based in Berlin and organizer of gamescom.

Corinna Schulze is Senior Director, EU Government Affairs at SAP since 2014. In her current position, Corinna is responsible for public policy matters related to the Digital Economy, Artificial Intelligence, Data Protection, and Export Control. She followed closely the negotiation and adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation and is now involved in the practical implementation within the company. Corinna chairs the European and External Affairs committee of the SPD Wirtschaftsforum e.V, serves as vice-chair on the infrastructure, privacy & security Committee of Digitaleurope  and is a member of the Digital Economy Advisory Board of the University of Vaasa, Finland. Corinna holds a law degree from the University of Münster, Germany and her bachelor law degree with the district court of Düsseldorf.

Dimitri Sarafinof is head of standardization department at the National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN). Dimitri Sarafinof has been involved in standardization for geography for more than 15 years. He is an international expert in his domain (3D modelling, web services …), being involved in technical committee 211 of ISO, Open Geospatial Consortium, and other defence specific standardization working groups, both at a technical and at a strategic level. In addition to this, he is now leading the setup of the national digital twin project in IGN. This national project aims at providing a national virtual replica of France and its territory, in support to the ecological transition and public policies by offering notably simulations capacities.

Laura Seritti is Head of Public Policy at Snap Inc, where she leads the EU public policy and regulatory work in Brussels.

She previously worked on competition policy at the European Commission (DG Competition), focusing on merger control and state aid, and as a public policy consultant. She also carried out research on internal market, digital policy and consumer protection as a visiting researcher at the Perelman Centre of Law of the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Laura holds a Degree in economics from Bocconi University, an MA in European economic studies from the College of Europe in Bruges and an LLM in European law from Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Andrea Tognoni is Head of EU Affairs at 5Rights Foundation, focusing on advancing children’s rights in EU digital policies and the online environment. Formerly leading the government affairs team at a global public affairs consultancy in Brussels, he has worked for the EU Delegation to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva and with international NGOs on human rights issues. Qualified lawyer, he holds an LL.M in Public International Law from Leiden University, where he researched the impact of civil society and social movements on global law and governance.

Fergal Farragher is a Policy Director at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. He currently works in the Networks and Communications Group, where he is responsible for policy across a range of issues in the telecoms and digital sectors. In 2023 he led Ofcom’s study into competition in the market for cloud infrastructure services in the UK. Previously Fergal worked across a variety of roles in Ofcom’s Strategy and Research Group, including leading strategy and policy development work on broadband, spectrum and online regulation.

Gabriele Mazzini is the architect and lead author of the proposal on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) at the European Commission, where he has focused on the legal and policy questions raised by new technologies since August 2017. Between 2009 and 2017 Gabriele studied and worked in the United States. He was Associate General Counsel at the Millennium Villages Project, an international development initiative across several sub-Saharan countries founded and directed by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University economist and senior United Nations advisor, and he worked with early stage start-ups in the field of emergency communications and smart energy solutions.  As EU official, he previously served in the European Parliament and the Court of Justice. He holds a LLM from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Italian and Comparative Criminal Law from the University of Pavia and a Law Degree from the Catholic University in Milan. He is qualified to practice law in Italy and New York and is a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Juliana Koza serves as a Director for Government Affairs in Germany and Europe since 2020. She focuses on the topics of automotive, cybersecurity, metaverse among others.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Juliana worked as the political advisor to the former German State Secretary for Digital and Transport. She worked as a strategic advisor to the Board of the Association of German Public Banks in Berlin. Juliana started her career as an intern at Volkswagen.  Juliana has an MBA in Management and Business Strategy from the Munich University of Applied Sciences (Germany) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Passau (Germany) in Governance & Public Policy with the focus on Law and International Politics. She spent one semester abroad studying politics and economics at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan).

Martin Hullin has been Director of the Bertelsmann Stiftung’s “Digitalization and the Common Good” program since October 2023, where he and his team develop innovative approaches to strengthen the common good in context of responsible digitalization at national and international level. His expertise includes areas such as international digital and data policy, AI and sustainability policy. Mr. Hullin has held professional positions in Washington D.C., Geneva, Paris and Bonn, including co-founding the Datasphere Initiative and roles at the United Nations, GIZ and in global multistakeholder policy networks. His work and views have been presented in prestigious forums such as the UN World Data Forum and COP conferences. He was honored with the Future of Data Award in 2023.

Professor Sean Ennis is an economist, author, and expert. He focuses on company behaviour, competition, and regulation.

Sean Ennis is Professor of Competition Policy and Director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.

Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the Competition Division of the OECD. Prior to that, he has served as an Executive Director of the Competition Commission of Mauritius, as an Economist at the European Commission’s DG Competition and at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

Over the years, Sean Ennis has published research studies and reports published by economic journals and submitted to the European Parliament, the G20, the OECD and the World Bank. He has co-authored reports for regulatory and government agencies in Australia, Greece, Mexico, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

He received a BA (Hons) in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge and a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Daniel Foà is a Research Fellow in Economic Law at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and has a Ph.D. in Law and Business from LUISS Guido Carli. He was awarded the F. Bonelli Scholarship to attend the MSc in Law and Finance at the University of Oxford. Author of scientific contributions in Italian and English, he is a member of the following research centers: BILL-Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Law Lab (LUISS Guido Carli); Law and Technology (UniSalento), and the Young Researchers Group (European Banking Institute).

Bruno Liebhaberg is Executive Chairman 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’s in management sciences from SBS-EM ULB and a Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

¹Also representing B.LIEBHABERG S.A., Director General

²Member of the Strategic Committee

Dr Gianclaudio Malgieri is an Associate Professor of Law & Technology and a Board Member at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies. He serves as the Co-Director of the Brussels Privacy Hub, Free University of Brussels (VUB) and as an Affiliated Researcher at the Augmented Law Institute of the EDHEC Business School (Lille, France). He is an Associate Editor of Computer Law and Security Review, an External Ethics Expert of the European Commission, and an Advisory Board member of EPIC.org. He also coordinates VULNERA, the International Observatory of Vulnerable People in Data Protection. His field of research and teaching are data protection law, privacy, AI regulation, digital law, consumer protection in the digital market, data sustainability, and intellectual property law.

Antonio Manganelli is Professor of Antitrust and Regulation at the University of Rome LUMSA, where he is also programme coordinator for the M.Sc. in Antitrust, Regulation and Innovative industries. Antonio holds a Ph.D. in Law and Economics from the University of Siena.

He previously worked as Research Associate at the European University Institute, as coordinator of the Florence School of Regulation, and in several public institutions, i.e., the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as Deputy Head of Cabinet, the OECD as national expert, the Italian Regulator for Telecom, Media and Postal Services (AGCOM), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), the Research Office at the Italian Central Bank.

Fabiana Di Porto is an Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy), and a Adjunct Professor of Innovation law and Regulation at Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy). She holds a joint PhD in Law from the Université Robert Schuman of Strasburg and the University of Perugia, and an MSc in Regulation from the London School of Economics. She held visiting positions at the Robert Schuman Center for Research Studies of the European University Institute and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2019/20), both as a Forchheimer Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty and associate at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center.

Fabiana is the co-editor in chief of the peer-reviewed, A-rated Italian law journal “Concorrenza e mercato” (Competition and the market), and a member of two executive boards: the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and Braincircle Italy. Since 2019, she heads an interdisciplinary research group on Algorithmic Disclosure which explores the use of ML algorithms and NLP tools for regulatory purposes. She is a member of multiple scientific committees, the Global Pandemic Network and the Osservatorio AIR (Regulatory Impact Assessment), and coordinates projects on the use of AI in the judiciary (Lecce) and a multi-stakeholder study group on Metaverse.

She has over 80 articles, 3 books, 5 edited collections and a number of op-eds to her credit. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been audited as a national expert before European and Italian institutions.

Emily Gillett is Director of European AI Governance for the Future Society. Before joining The Future Society, Emily was an English barrister (Lincoln’s Inn) and Hong Kong solicitor, specialising in litigation arising from failed corporate governance, particularly high-profile cross-border commercial fraud. With 15 years of courtroom experience, she has litigated cases in London, Grand Cayman, Guernsey and Hong Kong. Emily has an LLB in Law with French Law from University College London, a licence en droit from Université Panthéon-Assas, and a Master’s in Diplomatic Studies from Oxford University. She is a member of the International Association for Privacy Professionals, and has undertaken the latter’s AI Governance Professional training.