Data sharing for digital market contestability

Jan Krämer is an Academic Co-Director at CERRE and a Professor at the University of Passau, Germany, where he holds the chair of Internet & Telecommunications Business.

Previously, he headed a research group on telecommunications markets at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he also obtained a diploma degree in Business and Economics Engineering with a focus on computer science, telematics and operations research, and a Ph.D. in Economics, both with distinction.

He is editor and author of several interdisciplinary books on the regulation of telecommunications markets and has published numerous articles in the premier scholarly journals in Information Systems, Economics, Management and Marketing research on issues such as net neutrality, data and platform economy, and the design of electronic markets.

Professor Krämer has served as academic consultant for leading firms in the telecommunications and Internet industry, as well as for governmental institutions, such as the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and the European Commission.

His current research focuses on the role of data for competition and innovation in online markets and the regulation of online platforms.

Guillaume Loriot is the Deputy Director-General for Mergers in the Directorate-General for Competition since 16 May 2021.

From 2014-2021, he was the Director in charge of Telecom, Media and Technology competition cases. Prior to his appointment in 2014, Guillaume Loriot was the Deputy Head of the Cabinet of Vice President Joaquin Almunia, EU Commissioner for Competition Policy, between 2010 and 2014, and was specifically responsible for Antitrust and Merger control, as well as for EU Legislation on Antitrust Damages Actions. He was previously Head of Unit 02 – Antitrust and Merger Coordination – at DG Competition.

Before joining the European Commission in 2002, Guillaume worked in a law firm on competition matters and subsequently as a referendaire with the EU General Court. He studied law in Paris II University, University College London and the College of Europe in Bruges

Paola Colombo is General Manager of Publitalia ’80, Mediaset Italy saleshouse, where she is leading the Adtech and Business development unit focussing on new business strategies, partnerships, and technology driven innovation.

Paola graduated in 2003 as an Engineer at Politecnico of Milan. Thriving into change and passionate about innovation and technology, she has worked in finance and digital media in London first, gaining experience on several markets and international environments, and in Italy, for GroupM.

After pioneering the world of programmatic in Italy with the launch of Xaxis which she lead from 2011 to 2015, she has moved to the broadcaster world to jump right in the fascinating evolution of the media industry to launch and grow emerging revenue streams.

Currenty Paola is CEO of Adtech Ventures srl and Board Member of Publieurope Ltd, both Publitalia companies on Adtech development and International Saleshouse respectively. She has been appointed Director in the newly launched European Broadcaster Exchange.

Alexandre de Streel is the Academic Director of the digital research programme at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He sits in the scientific committees of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), the European University Institute-Centre for a Digital Society (Italy) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).

His main research areas are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regularly advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union, and the European Commission. He has also been the chair of the expert group on the online platform economy, advising the European Commission.

Axel Desmedt is the President of the Belgian Competition Authority since 1 March 2024.

Before that, he was a member of the BIPT Council (the Belgian telecoms and postal regulator) for 14 years (two consecutive mandates), where he respectively lead the spectrum, telecoms & media, consumer and postal market services, in addition to the legal and HR services. He led several spectrum auctions in Belgium and introduced some several ground-breaking regulatory projects, such as the first successful cable access regulation in Europe. During his tenures Axel Desmedt helped preparing a number of major legislative reforms in both the postal and telecoms sectors which were adopted by the Government and Parliament. He oversaw some of the major economic and administrative disputes both for the BIPT and the Belgian State in the telecoms and postal sectors.

Axel Desmedt started as a lawyer at the Brussels Bar practicing for more than eight years in two different law firms, where he specialised mainly in EU competition and WTO law. He then joined a major European telecommunications group in-house as a Senior Legal Council and Deputy Director for the group’s permanent representation to the EU.

Axel Desmedt lectured as a visiting professor at UCL (2015-2020) and KUL (2020-2021). He was the co-founder and editor of the Tijdschrift voor het recht van netwerkindustrieën/ Revue du droit des indsutries de réseau. Since 2023, Axel Desmedt is a Fellow of the Free University of Brussels (VUB), where he graduated in law in 1996. He also holds an LLM from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA).

Jean Gonié is Director of Europe Public Policy at Snap Inc. Prior to joining Snap, he was the Public Policy Director of Amazon in France, where he was also a member of the Management Team for almost three years.

Before that, Mr Gonié held several positions within Microsoft, including in Government Affairs in France; Director of Privacy Policy for Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Worldwide Public Sector Director for Privacy, based at Microsoft’s headquarters in the US.

Prior to that, Mr. Gonié worked at the Legal Department of the French Data Protection Authority (the CNIL) and was a staff member of French members of the Parliament.

Mr. Gonié was also a lecturer and professor of Privacy and Internet Law at Sciences Po Paris and University Sorbonne. He is currently a French foreign trade adviser and a member of the Board of the French Tech Amsterdam.

Phillip Malloch has been Director of Economic & Social Policy, EU Affairs, at Facebook since October 2019.

Previously, he served as Principal Advisor to the CEO at Telia Company. Prior to that, he worked as a public affairs and communications executive.

Mr Malloch has experience in industrial, political and executive communications and strategic engagement as well as a deep knowledge and understanding of digital communications and internet business strategy. Among other things, he has worked as part of leadership projects in M&A, strategy, CEO outreach, trade associations leadership, global political summits and outreach.

Daniel Schnurr is a CERRE Research Fellow and a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Regensburg, where he holds the Chair of Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification.

Previously, he led the Data Policies research group at the University of Passau. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2016, where he also completed his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Information Engineering and Management. Daniel Schnurr has published in leading journals in Information Systems and Economics on competition and data sharing in digital markets, regulation of data-driven market power, and competition and cooperation in telecommunications markets.

His current research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in competition, privacy and data sharing in digital markets as well as regulation of AI, cloud computing and the data economy.