New ways of oversight for the digital economy

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.

Pierre Dubreuil is head of the “Data-driven regulation” unit within the French Telecommunications and Post Regulatory Authority (Arcep). His main focus is using the power of information and data to amplify the regulator’s ability to act and to enable users to make informed choices.

Pierre Dubreuil graduated from Telecom Paris and from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay where he specialized in data and IA. In 2019, he was also rapporteur for the “co-regulation initiative” launched by the French State in collaboration with Facebook.

Johanna Fell has been working for the Bavarian regulatory authority for commercial broadcasting (Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien – BLM) in Munich since 1988. She started her career working for various multilingual publications as a translator and editor. After two years as deputy head of the translation department of a major German energy supplier, she joined the BLM in Munich in 1998 as Assistant to the President and European Representative.

With regards to EPRA, she has been involved from the inception of the organisation. In May 2015, she was elected to the EPRA Board and currently holds the function of Senior Vice-Chair.

Marisa Jiménez Martín joined Facebook in February 2018 as Director of Public policy and Deputy Head of EU Affairs. She has over 20 years of public policy experience; she worked for the EU Commission at the beginning of her career and held various positions at Time Warner and Deutsche Post World Net Brussels Corporate public policy offices, dealing with a variety of public policy matters focusing on Privacy and Data Protection, Internet and RFID policy-related issues. Before joining Facebook, Marisa led Google’s privacy public policy strategy both in Brussels and Mountain View in California.

Spanish lawyer by the University of Zaragoza, Marisa Jiménez Martín is specialized in EU law by the Europa Institut of Saarbruecken, Germany.

Michèle Ledger is a researcher at the CRIDS research centre of the University of Namur where she also lectures on the regulatory aspects of online platforms at the postmaster degree course (DTIC). She has been working for more than 20 years at Cullen International and leads the company’s Media regulatory intelligence service.

Dr. Thibault Schrepel, LL.M., is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University School of Law, and a Faculty Affiliate at Stanford University CodeX Center where he has created the “Computational Antitrust” project that brings together over 45 antitrust agencies.

These last couple of years, Thibault has been focusing most of his research on blockchain antitrust. In 2018, Thibault was granted the “Academic Excellence” Global Competition Review Award, which recognizes “an academic competition specialist who has made an outstanding contribution to competition policy.” He has published a book (Bruylant ed.) on the subject of “predatory innovation in antitrust law” and articles at Harvard University, Stanford, MIT, Oxford, NYU, Berkeley, and Georgetown, among others.

Thibault also holds research and teaching positions at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Sciences Po Paris. He is a Harvard University Berkman Center alumnus.