Improving the Digital Networks Act Proposal

Richard Feasey is a CERRE Senior Adviser and advises firms and public authorities around the world in the telecommunications and other regulated sectors. He has been an Inquiry Chair at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and Member of the National Infrastructure Commission for Wales., a Senior adviser to the UK Payments Systems Regulator, the House of Lords EU Sub-Committee and to various international legal and economic advisory firms. He was Director of Public Policy for Vodafone plc between 2001 and 2013.

Antonio Manganelli is professor of Competition Law and Policy at the University of Siena, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Law and Economics.

He previously worked at the University of Rome LUMSA as a professor of Antitrust and Regulation, and at the European University Institute, where he was academic coordinator of the Florence School of Regulation.

Antonio has also served in various public institutions in Europe, including the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as Deputy Head of Cabinet, the OECD as a national expert, the Italian Regulator for Telecom, Media and Postal Services (AGCOM), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), and the Research Office at the Italian Central Bank.

Alexandre de Streel is 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 boards of Centre for a Digital Society of the European University Institute (Italy), the Centre for Competition Policy of the University of East Anglia (UK), the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), 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 regulatory advises the European Union and international organisations on digital regulation.

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, 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 and has been the chair the expert group on the online platform economy advising the European Commission.