Emerging Virtual Worlds: Implications for Policy and Regulation

Fabiana Di Porto is an Associate Professor of Law and Technology at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy), and a Adjunct Professor of Innovation law and Regulation at Luiss Guido Carli University (Rome, Italy). She holds a joint PhD in Law from the Université Robert Schuman of Strasburg and the University of Perugia, and an MSc in Regulation from the London School of Economics. She held visiting positions at the Robert Schuman Center for Research Studies of the European University Institute and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2019/20), both as a Forchheimer Visiting Professor at the Law Faculty and associate at the Federmann Cyber Security Research Center.

Fabiana is the co-editor in chief of the peer-reviewed, A-rated Italian law journal “Concorrenza e mercato” (Competition and the market), and a member of two executive boards: the Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA) and Braincircle Italy. Since 2019, she heads an interdisciplinary research group on Algorithmic Disclosure which explores the use of ML algorithms and NLP tools for regulatory purposes. She is a member of multiple scientific committees, the Global Pandemic Network and the Osservatorio AIR (Regulatory Impact Assessment), and coordinates projects on the use of AI in the judiciary (Lecce) and a multi-stakeholder study group on Metaverse.

She has over 80 articles, 3 books, 5 edited collections and a number of op-eds to her credit. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences and has been audited as a national expert before European and Italian institutions.

Professor Sean Ennis is an economist, author, and expert. He focuses on company behaviour, competition, and regulation.

Sean Ennis is Professor of Competition Policy and Director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.

Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the Competition Division of the OECD. Prior to that, he has served as an Executive Director of the Competition Commission of Mauritius, as an Economist at the European Commission’s DG Competition and at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.

Over the years, Sean Ennis has published research studies and reports published by economic journals and submitted to the European Parliament, the G20, the OECD and the World Bank. He has co-authored reports for regulatory and government agencies in Australia, Greece, Mexico, Romania, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

He received a BA (Hons) in Economics from King’s College, Cambridge and a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Daniel Foà is a Research Fellow in Economic Law at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and has a Ph.D. in Law and Business from LUISS Guido Carli. He was awarded the F. Bonelli Scholarship to attend the MSc in Law and Finance at the University of Oxford. Author of scientific contributions in Italian and English, he is a member of the following research centers: BILL-Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Law Lab (LUISS Guido Carli); Law and Technology (UniSalento), and the Young Researchers Group (European Banking Institute).