Digital Services Act: Platform responsibilities and media

Sally Broughton Micova is a CERRE Academic Co-Director and an Associate Professor in Communications Policy and Politics at the University of East Anglia (UEA). She is also a member of UEA’s Centre for Competition Policy.

Her research focuses on media and communications policy in Europe.

She completed her PhD in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), after which she was an LSE Teaching and Research Fellow in Media Governance and Policy and Deputy Director of the LSE Media Policy Project.

Camilla Bustani is Director, International at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator, where she is responsible for Ofcom’s international strategy across the sectors it regulates. She has been actively engaged in European regulatory debates for the last 15 years, prior to which she worked as a lawyer at Clifford Chance LLP in London for 8 years.

She got her bachelors’ degree from Harvard University and a masters’ degree from Columbia University, and a law degree from Oxford University.

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.

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.

Anna Solar Bassett is a public affairs and government relations professional with 15 years of international experience in Europe and globally. She has worked at the intersection of legislative, geopolitical and services issues in a range of capacities.

Her current role includes (inter alia) leading on Vodafone’s content, entertainment and media advocacy globally.