Digital Platforms Summit 2026

Kush Amlani is Global Competition & Regulatory Counsel at Mozilla, leading the competition work. Prior to joining Mozilla, Kush was a Senior Competition & Regulatory Lawyer at the BBC for five years, based in London. He joined the BBC from SJ Berwin LLP (later Kings & Wood Mallesons) where he worked on competition cases in sectors such as energy, media, telecoms and pharmaceuticals, including the pay-for-delay cases before the European Commission and the Court of Justice. Kush studied law at the University of Warwick and Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV.

Antoine Babinet is Deputy Head of Unit at the European Commission, working on the enforcement of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). He previously worked on merger control at the Commission, and earlier in his career practiced at an international law firm and served at the French competition authority.

Amber Bechrouri is Director of EU Public Policy at Amazon, where she is responsible for the company’s interactions with the European Union institutions across a wide range of issues, including on consumer and sustainability policy.

Amber has been in Brussels and active in policy and government affairs since 2001, initially in the paper industry, then at Nike. She was Head of EU and International Policy at UK consumer group Which?, before joining Amazon in 2017.

In addition, Amber is the sponsor of Women@AmazonBE. She is an advocate for inclusiveness and making time for personal development.

Christoph Busch is Professor of Law and Director of the European Legal Studies Institute at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. He is a Fellow and Council Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale University. His research focuses on consumer law, platform governance and algorithmic regulation.

Urs Buscke is Senior Legal Officer at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation.

BEUC is the largest organisation promoting the general interests of Europe’s consumers. Founded in 1962, it proudly represents more than 40 independent national consumer organisations from over 30 European countries.

Urs Buscke leads BEUC’s work on digital fairness. Before joining BEUC in 2022, he worked as Attaché at the Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU. Urs Buscke holds a doctorate in EU law from the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he also worked as research assistant at the EU law department after graduation.

Chiara Caccinelli is Deputy Head of the Economic Analysis and Digital Affairs Unit at Arcep (the French regulator for electronic communications, postal and print media distribution services) and Co-chair of the Digital Markets WG at BEREC. From 2019 to 2022 she co-chaired BEREC’s Market and Economic Analysis WG. Before joining Arcep and BEREC, Chiara was Deputy to the Director of the Governance and Regulation Programme and the Club of Regulators in Paris (2015-2019), and simultaneously carried out academic research on economic and competition challenges in the digital economy. Previously, she was Programme Manager and Research Associate at the Florence School of Regulation (European University Institute, 2011-2015) and Analyst and Consultant in European Affairs in Milan and Brussels (2009-2010). Chiara holds an MSc in Economics of Network Industries and Digital Economy from Paris Dauphine University – PSL, and an MA in European Affairs from the University of Perugia.

Dries is a lawyer and coordinator of the digital economy at the Consumer Division of the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM). He has nearly 20 years of experience as an enforcement official in numerous economic sectors. He set up ACM’s Behavioural Insigths Team and managed the team for the first years. He has been seconded to the OECD to work on consumer policy. And he is a co-author of ACM’s Guidelines on the Protection of the Online Consumer.

Joined Apple in February 2013 where as part of the global team he helped lead Apple’s world-wide approach to privacy, across all products and services. He was also responsible for all aspects of Apple’s response to the GDPR. Since July 2024, he has taken on responsibility in the Europe, Middle East and India region for leading regulatory legal matters. In this capacity, Gary is overseeing Apple’s implementation of various digital regulations in Europe.

Previously he served as Ireland’s Deputy Data Protection Commissioner for seven years and as a civil servant worked in the Irish Prime Minister’s Office for ten years.

Mark is the EU advocacy lead for international human rights organisation ARTICLE 19. ARTICLE 19 is a global civil society organisation that works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. To protect free expression online, we advocate for pro-competitive solutions to dilute corporate power and guarantee diversity, openness, and fairness.

Based in Brussels, Mark oversees advocacy across a broad range of files where freedom of speech and access to information issues arise; files include inter alia, the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA), the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) as well as work on the European Commission’s Anti-SLAPPs Directive.

In the past Mark was Team Leader for the European Commission on a data protection project overseeing implementation of data protection legislation in non-EU states, with a focus on the Global South and Asia. Before Brussels, Mark was also a Regional Director for an US development finance non-profit managing teams across the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and Egypt) over a 4.5-year stint and spent 4 years as an EU policy advisor in London for the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). He has an undergraduate degree in Economics & Finance and master’s degrees in European Economics and Public Affairs and Public Policy. He is currently taking a postgraduate in EU Competition law at King’s College, London

John Evans has over 20 years of experience working in the area of competition, regulation and consumer protection.

John joined Coimisiún na Meán in July 2023 as the Digital Services Commissioner. The Government decided that An Coimisiún will be designated as Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator, implementing and enforcing the EU Regulation known as the Digital Services Act in Ireland. As Digital Services Commissioner, John has responsibility, among other things, for:

• Leading, in close cooperation with the Online Safety Commissioner, on the enforcement and implementation of the Digital Services Coordinator’s functions within Coimisiún na Meán
• Developing the procedures necessary to implement the Digital Services Act, such as the certification procedures for awarding trusted flagger status and vetting researchers regarding access to data
• Representing the Irish Digital Services Coordinator as a member of the European Board of Digital Services

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.

Amelia Fletcher CBE is a Professor of Competition Policy at the Centre for Competition Policy, University of East Anglia and co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics. She also acts as an expert witness.

She has been a Non-Executive Director at the UK Competition and Markets Authority (2016-2023), Financial Conduct Authority (2013-20) and Payment Systems Regulator (2014-20), and a member of Ofgem’s Enforcement Decision Panel (2014-2022). She has also been a member of DG Comp’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy, and was a member of the Digital Competition Expert Panel, commissioned by the UK Treasury and led by Jason Furman, which reported in March 2019.

She was previously Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (2001-2013), where she also spent time leading the OFT’s Mergers and Competition Policy teams. Before joining the OFT, she was an economic consultant at Frontier Economics (1999-2001) and London Economics (1993-1999).

She has written and presented widely on competition and consumer policy. In her ongoing research, Amelia has a particular interest in the implications for competition and consumer policy of behavioural economics and online markets.

Amelia has a DPhil and MPhil in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford.

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.

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.

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²Member of the Strategic Committee

Aurélien is in charge of public policy in Europe for the Internet privacy company and search engine DuckDuckGo. In his role, he advances the company’s vision to raise the standard of trust online by working towards a fairer and easier access to simple privacy protections. Prior to joining DuckDuckGo, Aurélien was a consultant at APCO Worldwide, advising technology companies on EU policies and engagement.

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.

Giorgio Monti is a CERRE Research Fellow and Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School.

He began his career in the UK (Leicester 1993-2001 and London School of Economics (2001-2010) before taking up the Chair in competition law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2010-2019). While at the EUI he helped establish the Florence Competition Program which carries out research and training for judges and executives. He also served as Head of the Law Department at the EUI.

His principal field of research is competition law, a subject he enjoys tackling from an economic and a policy perspective.

Together with Damian Chalmers and Gareth Davies he is a co-author of European Union Law: Text and Materials (4th ed, Cambridge University Press, 2019), one of the major texts on the subject. He is one of the editors of the Common Market Law Review.

Eugene McQuaid is a Senior Public Policy and Government Relations Manager at TikTok with a focus on consumer protection and data protection policy at EU level. A UK and EU qualified lawyer, Eugene previously worked at international law firm Freshfields. 

Isabelle Pérignon, a French national, is Director for ‘Consumer policy ‘ at the European Commission since October 2023. She was for four years (2019-2023) the Deputy Head of Cabinet of the former Commissioner for Justice. Before this position, she worked as Head of Unit ‘Procedural criminal law’ at the European Commission. Ms Pérignon was also a member of the Cabinet of several Commissioners, including Commissioner for Values and Transparency, the Czech Vera Jourova and former Commissioner for Home Affairs, the Swedish Cécilia Malmström.

Before joining the Commission in 2003, Isabelle Perignon was a solicitor specialising in EU law and was a member of the French and Belgian bars. She worked at Baker McKenzie law firm under the supervision of Ms Christine Lagarde. She holds a Master’s Degree in European Legal Studies (LLM College of Europe) and a Master in Business Studies.

Martins Prieditis is deputy Head of Unit in Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (DG JUST) of the European Commission. He joined the Commission in 2007 and has worked in DG JUST on consumer protection since 2012.

Martins dealt with the last review of EU consumer law in 2019, and the new Directive promoting the Repair of Goods adopted in 2024. Currently, his main file is the preparation of the Commission’s proposal for a Digital Fairness Act due in 2026.

Alexandre de Streel is CERRE Academic Director, professor of European law at the University of Namur and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris. He sits on 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.

Bartlomeiej joined Google’s EU public policy team in 2017 and has since contributed to several landmark tech regulations, including the DMA. He is currently responsible for shaping Google’s positions on EU data governance and competition policy.

Before joining Google, Bartek served as a European Parliament official and advised MEPs on industry and energy policy. His previous experience includes roles at the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Jagiellonian University and an MA in International Relations from the College of Europe.

Max von Thun is the Director of Europe & Transatlantic Partnerships at the Open Markets Institute. He leads Open Markets’ research and advocacy in Europe alongside efforts to bring about greater alignment in transatlantic competition policy and enforcement.

Von Thun’s work touches on a range of antitrust and competition issues in Europe, with a particular focus on technology and new legislative frameworks targeting dominant digital gatekeepers. Prior to joining Open Markets, von Thun advised UK Parliamentarians on economic policy, led the research program at think-tank the Centre for Entrepreneurs, and advised businesses on EU and UK technology and competition policy.

Margrethe Vestager is globally renowned for her decisive leadership at the heart of Europe’s regulatory landscape. As the European Commissioner for Competition from 2014 to 2024, she led high-profile antitrust cases, challenging major tech conglomerates and reinforcing fair market practices. Her tenure culminated in significant legal victories against industry giants, reshaping the digital regulatory framework in Europe.

A former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Economic Affairs in Denmark, Vestager brings a wealth of policy expertise to the stage. Her focus on digital transformation and fair competition has guided the EU’s approach to emerging technologies, addressing data security, privacy, and responsible innovation. In recognition of her impact, she was featured among the Financial Times’ 25 most influential women of 2024.

Lennart Wetzel is Senior Manager for EU Public Policy at Snap, leading the company’s engagement on EU consumer protection and overseeing public policy across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Before joining Snap in 2021, he spent eight years at Microsoft, where he led AI policy efforts in Germany and helped establish the Microsoft Berlin Policy and Innovation Center. He holds a Master’s degree in International Public Management and Policy from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Economics from Georg-August University Göttingen.