Co-investment & network sharing – Recommendations for an efficient and fair implementation

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

Marc Bourreau is a Academic Co-Director at CERRE and Professor of Economics at Télécom Paris (Institut Polytechnique de Paris). He is affiliated with the interdisciplinary institute for innovation (i3) for his research.

His research focuses on competition policy and regulation, digital markets, and telecommunications.

Marc holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris Panthéon Assas.

Steffen Hoerning is Associate Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal. His research areas include industrial organisation, with emphasis on network economics, research and development, and oligopoly theory.

His research has been published in journals such as Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Industrial Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, and Journal of Regulatory Economics, among others.

Winston Maxwell is Director of the Law & Digital Technology Studies department at Télécom Paris – Institut Polytechnique de Paris, where he teaches and writes on subjects related to the regulation of data, AI and telecommunications. He previously had a career in private practice as a partner of the international law firm Hogan Lovells.

Winston completed his law degree (JD) at Cornell, his PhD in economics at Télécom Paris, and his HDR (Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches) at the University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne. His research focuses on the regulation of AI, and in particular human control over algorithmic systems, explainability and bias. Winston co-ordinates the “Operational AI Ethics” program at Telecom Paris, which includes AI Ethics teaching at Institut Polytechnique de Paris. In addition to being a research fellow at CERRE, Winston is a member of the Data and AI Ethics Council of Orange, the Scientific Advisory Board of ARCOM, the Ethics Board of the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies. He also contributes to standardisation activities on trustworthy AI within ISO/IEC JTC21/WG 4.

Vesa Terävä joined the European Commission and DG Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology in 2002. He is currently Head of “Electronic Communications Policy” unit in DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology.

From 2003 until May 2009 Mr Terävä worked in DG INFSO at Unit dealing with the electronic communications consultation procedures provided in EU telecoms rules. He was appointed as “Head of Sector” in 2006 and “Deputy Head of Unit” in 2008

Prior to joining the Commission, he worked at the Permanent Representation of Finland to the EU and at the Ministry of Transport and Communications in Finland.

Rita Wezenbeek is Director of Platforms Policy and Enforcement in DG CONNECT. The Platforms Directorate is in charge of policies and regulations applicable to online intermediary services, including the supervision of the implementation and enforcement of the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act (the latter jointly with DG COMP). These two new Regulations establish strong rules to ensure a safe, fair and open platform economy for European citizens and businesses, and give the Commission significant regulatory powers over “gatekeepers” and very large platforms and search engines.

Rita joined the European Commission in 2002. Before moving to DG CONNECT in December 2020, she was the head of the units dealing with Anti-Trust and Telecommunications (2017-2020) and Retail Financial Services and Payment Systems (2010-2017) in DG Competition.

Before joining the Commission, Rita worked for sixteen years as a private lawyer, specialized in European and corporate law, in a Dutch/ Belgian law firm. She also was a Member of the Commission on European Integration, an independent advisory body on foreign policy to the Dutch government and Parliament.

Professor Antonio Nicita is a Member of the Board at the Italian Regulatory Authority AGCOM and a Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Law at Sapienza University, Rome.

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, European Association of Law and Economics and of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (ISNIE).

Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Siena, Visiting Fulbright Professor at Yale University and a Non-Governmental Adviser of International Competition Network (ICN) for the report on telecommunications sector.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Siena, Italy.

Stephan Netzle is President of the Swiss Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) since 2017 and an attorney at law specialised in Sports Law, Health Law, IT and Intellectual Property.

From 2009 to 2015, he was Vice President of the Executive Committee of Swiss Olympic, the umbrella organisation of Swiss sports federations representing Olympic and non-Olympic sports.

He holds a Ph.D from the University of Zurich and an LL.M. in law from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Sabrina Stanislas-Boumier leads Qualcomm’s government affairs activities in France and deals with government officials and industry associations in support of EU spectrum and technology policy agenda.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Sabrina worked at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance as head of the delegation to the EU on regulatory issues. Sabrina also gained professional experience at ARCEP, the French regulatory authority as a spectrum expert and at Orange as 3GPP standardization expert.

In the last six years, Sabrina has engaged in many campaigns on behalf of the French Ministry, developing and proposing national positions and following EU negotiations on competitiveness, innovation and industrial policies. Sabrina holds an Engineering Degree in telecommunications from Telecom SudParis – Institut Polytechnique de Paris.

Ana Baide is a Senior Public Policy Manager at Vodafone Group, focussing on policy development for network access and deployment across the global Vodafone footprint.

Prior to joining Vodafone she was a Senior Advisor for the wholesale operator Chorus in New Zealand where she led the public policy and regulatory work on the legislative shift to the new utility-style framework for wholesale fibre services under structural separation.

Ana is an experienced lawyer having also worked for the national regulator in New Zealand and in private practice with over 10 years of experience in telecommunications, public & economic policy, regulatory affairs and competition law. 

Volcy Lesca has been Senior Regulatory Manager of European regulatory affairs in Orange Group since 2007, notably on subjects linked to network deployment, interconnection, market structures.

She chairs different working groups, for example within GSMA and ETNO associations, working on regulatory and economic matters.

Volcy was previously in charge of content and mobile R&D strategy after 15 years as International Business Development Director in the Pay TV market for an Orange subsidiary.

Her university background is mainly on economics and land use planning.