Getting Regulation Right for Europe’s Digital & Net Zero Future

Stephanie Yon-Courtin is a Member of the European Parliament since 2019, a member of the Renew Group and of the French political party Renaissance. Stéphanie Yon-Courtin is Renew coordinator of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Vice-chair of the Committee on Fisheries (PECH) and substitute of the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO).

Stephanie Yon-Courtin’s main commitments at the European level are the establishment of fair competition rules that are favourable to innovation and business development, as well as the protection of consumers in the digital world. She was rapporteur on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR), the Solvency 2 review of the rules of the insurance market and the Retail Investment Strategy.

She is also a member of the Delegation for the UE-Canada relations at the European Parliament.

Stephanie Yon-Courtin is a former lawyer. She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004. Specialized in competition law, she has worked in international law firms (Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, Allen & Overy LLP). Before that, she worked as a jurist for the European Commission. Between 2007 and 2011, she joined the French Competition Authority as an international affairs adviser to President Bruno Lasserre.

Stephanie Yon-Courtin is also Regional Councillor of Normandy and she was mayor of Saint-Contest in Calvados until 2019.

She holds a Master’s degree in law from the Universities of Caen and Bristol and a Master’s degree in European law from the University of Brussels.

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

Agustín Reyna is Head of Legal and Economic Affairs at The European Consumer Organisation, BEUC.

Within BEUC, he supervises four policy teams (Financial Services, Digital, Consumer Rights and Consumer Redress and Enforcement) and coordinates the organisation’s work on competition law enforcement and policy.

He is responsible for providing the consumer viewpoint to the European Commission’s competition directorate in high-profile cases affecting consumer markers.

In 2017, Agustín was elected co-EU chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Trans-Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, a network of over 75 organisations representing consumers’ interest in the US and the EU.

Christina Papapostolou is the EU Affairs Director at PPC Group, the leading electricity utility in Southeastern Europe, with over 15 years of experience in the energy and industrial sectors. She has held managerial roles across these sectors and has extensive experience as Policy Advisor and Project Coordinator on numerous EU-funded projects. Christina holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations, an MA in Organisational Analysis and Behaviour, and a PhD in Public and European Policies.

She currently combines her academic background and industry expertise to contribute to EU and public policy, actively engaging in EU policy dialogue and teaching as an Adjunct Lecturer at universities in Greece and Cyprus. She speaks English, French, Bulgarian, and Greek.

Jakob Greiner joined Deutsche Telekom in 2015. He is leading the group’s overall engagement towards the European institutions, international organizations & trade associations. Prior to that, Jakob worked as legal counsel for Apple in Germany and as political advisor to a Member of the European Parliament. Jakob is a qualified German lawyer, he holds a law degree from Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich and a PhD in European institutional law from the University of Bayreuth.

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.

Annika Brack is the Director for the Energy, Mobility and Sustainability (EMS) practice at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE). Previously, she served as representative for Uniper SE in Brussels and led the political affairs unit at 50Hertz Transmission in Berlin. Her experience also includes senior roles at an emerging technology think tank and the World Economic Forum. Annika is a UNAOC and WEF Global Leadership Fellow, with a background in international studies in Paris, Washington D.C., and Berlin.

Catherine Banet (PhD) is Professor of Law at the University of Oslo, and Head of the Department for Energy and Resources Law, Norway. Her legal research activities focus on energy market design, energy transport infrastructures regulation, support schemes and financing models, focusing on renewable energy and notably offshore wind, climate change mitigation measures such as carbon capture and storage (CCS), and hydrogen regulation.

Prof. Banet has a background from the private law practice (Norway, France), the European Commission (DG ENV), U.S. diplomatic mission and academia. She is a member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment and Infrastructure Law of the IBA, and Chair of the Board of the Norwegian Energy Law Association.