What Should We Expect from the First DSA Systemic Risk Assessments?

Owen Bennett is International Online Safety lead at Ofcom, the UK’s independent communications regulator. Previously, Owen was a senior policy manager at Mozilla, the public benefit technology company and maker of the Firefox web browser. He is based in London, and prior to that he spent eight years in Brussels’ EU quarter.

His substantive expertise is policy issues related to the regulation of illegal and harmful content online, but he has worked across the full range of contemporary digital policy issues, including cybersecurity; competition; and privacy.

He holds a first class LL.M degree in Information Technology law from the University of Edinburgh. He also holds a first class honours undergraduate major degree in Philosophy and a second class honours undergraduate minor degree in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

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.

Andrea Calef is a Lecturer in Economics at the School of Economics of the University of East Anglia and a research member of the Centre for Competition Policy. Over time his research interest has spanned through topics, such as banking, systemic risk and international finance, ESG, Impact and Ethical Investing, FinTech and Crypto as well as competition.

Joris van Hoboken is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam and a Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB). Joris works on questions related to law and digital infrastructure, including at the intersection of fundamental rights protection and the governance of platforms and internet-based services.

Amongst other activities, Joris is running the DSA Observatory project, with a focus on upcoming implementation and enforcement of the DSA and questions of access to justice and content moderation.

Previously, Joris worked at the Information Law Institute (ILI) at New York University Law School, the NYU Stern Center for Business & Human Rights and CornellTech. He obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam on the topic of search engines and freedom of expression (2012) and has graduate degrees in Law and Theoretical Mathematics.

Joris was also a member of the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, and a member of the Transatlantic High-Level Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of Expression.

Maria Luisa is a competition lawyer by background with expertise in media, telecoms, and digital sectors. In the past, she worked as a competition associate at Bonelli Erede law firm and then spent 5 years in the academic and policy environment, dealing with regulatory reforms linked to the disruption led by the internet, and training judges and enforcers on competition, telecoms and media laws. She currently leads ARTICLE 19’s law and policy work concerning digital markets, focusing on using economic regulation and competition law and policy to advance the protection of free expression online.

Maria Luisa holds an LLM from the College of Europe in Bruges and is a PhD researcher at Tilburg Law School.

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.