Device neutrality: regulating mobile devices

Richard Feasey is a CERRE Senior Adviser and advises firms and public authorities around the world in the telecommunications and other regulated sectors. He has been an Inquiry Chair at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and Member of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales., a Senior 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.

Anaïs Le Gouguec works currently at Arcep as Head of the Economic analysis and digital intelligence Unit. She focuses notably on market analyses and platforms regulation.

She was also co-chair of the BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communication) Market Economic Analysis expert working group.

Ms Le Gouguec holds Master’s degrees in Finance and Economics from LSE and in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics from Ensae ParisTech.

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.