Invited speakers

Pinar Akman

Professor of Law, University of Leeds

Dr Pinar Akman is a Professor of Law at the School of Law at the University of Leeds. She is a Director at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance funded by the European Commission…

Francesco Anglani

Partner, BonelliErede

Francesco Anglani is a partner at BonelliErede. Based in Rome, he is the head of the BonelliErede’s Luxury Focus Team and he is member of the Shipping & Transport and of the Sport Law Focus Teams…

Rosa Arras

Head of the Antitrust & Energy Market Regulation, ENI

Rosa Arras is the Head of the Antitrust & Energy Market Regulation, Consumers & Communication Compliance department at ENI, where she provides expert advice and assistance to the Eni Group in matters of competition law…

Alberto Bacchiega

Director – Information, Communication and Media at DG Competition – European Commission

An economist by training, Alberto Bacchiega joined the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition in 2000. He has since then held a number of positions mainly in State aid and merger control…

Teresa Basile

EMEA Privacy Director and Legal Counsel of the Estée Lauder Companies

Teresa Basile is EMEA Privacy Director and Legal Counsel of the Estée Lauder Companies, a global cosmetics company, where she provides legal and policy advice on EU privacy law and data security matters…

Luciana Bellia

Senior Attorney, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Luciana Bellia’s practice focuses on antitrust law and energy law. Luciana has a strong reputation in assisting clients in regulatory and antitrust matters concerning infrastructures…

Matteo Beretta

Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Matteo Beretta is a partner based in the Milan office. Mr. Beretta’s practice primarily focuses on European law and antitrust law…

Alessandro Boso Caretta

Partner, DLA Piper

Alessandro Boso Caretta is a Partner in the Competition and Regulated Markets group within the Litigation & Regulatory department. He is based in the Rome office…

Maria Brakalova

Partner, Dentons

Based in Berlin, Dr. Maria Brakalova is a partner and member of the Dentons’ Competition, Antitrust & Regulatory and Public Procurement practices in Germany. She focuses mainly on foreign trade law and public procurement law…

Paolo Buccirossi

Director, Lear

Paolo Buccirossi is the Director and founder of Lear. Paolo has been working in the field of competition policy since 1994…

Antonio Buttà

Chief Economist, Italian Competition Authority

Antonio Buttà is the Chief Economist of the Italian Competition Authority. He specializes in industrial organization and has 20 years of experience in competition policy and regulation…

Nicole Calò-Niiranen

Global Head of Antitrust, ABB

Nicole Calò-Niiranen is the Global Head of Antitrust for ABB, a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future…

Jeroen Capiau

Policy Officer in DG Competition, European Commission

Jeroen Capiau joined the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission in 2009. He is currently a policy officer in the unit that provides upstream support to case teams…

Antonella Capria

Head of Environmental Law Department, Gianni & Origoni

Antonella Capria is the Head of the Environmental Law team. She has advised major Italian, European and US clients on environmental and administrative law issues…

Fiona Carlin

Partner Baker McKenzie

Fiona Carlin is the head of the EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs practice in Brussels. She is the former Chief Executive of much of Baker McKenzie’s EMEA Region and the former Chair of the Firm’s Global Competition and Antitrust Law Practice …

Michele Carpagnano

Partner, Dentons

Based in Rome, Michele Carpagnano heads Dentons’ Competition and Antitrust group in Italy…

Stefano Paolo Catelani

Partner CALIMALA LEGAL, adj. Professor, WEBSTER UNIVERSITY

Stefano read law at the University of Rome and, after a two-year traineeship within a law firm in Florence, he took the Bar Exam and qualified as an avvocato in Italy…

Joyce Chen

Journalist, PaRR

Joyce joined PaRR in 2018 when she started covering competition, data privacy, cybersecurity, and anti-bribery regulations with a primary focus on Hong Kong and Taiwan…

Paolo Chiricozzi

Head of Competition and State Aid at Enel

Paolo has managed the main competition cases of Enel Group during the last 20 years and has leaded Enel’s worldwide antitrust compliance programs (Italy, Slovakia, Romania, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Russia)…

Philippe Croene

Head of Antitrust Support for Green Traditional Refining & Marketing, Support Functions and International Networking, Eni SpA

Philippe Croene is Head of Antitrust Support for Green Traditional Refining & Marketing, Support Functions and International Networking at Eni SpA in Rome…

Lucio D’Amario

Partner, Linklaters

Lucio is a partner at Linklaters. He is based in Milan and heads the Italian Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group…

Claudia D’Amore

Officer, Directorate General for Competition – Italian Competition Authority

Claudia D’Amore is an officer of the Italian Competition Authority (ICA), where she is Responsible for coordinating procedures and multisectoral advocacy at the Directorate General for Competition…

Marco D’Ostuni

Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Marco D’Ostuni is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP office in Rome since 2009…

Emilio De Giorgi

Partner, Allen & Overy

Emilio leads our Italian Antitrust team and has over 20 years’ experience of assisting Italian and multinational companies in behavioural investigations before the Italian Antitrust Authority and the European Commission…

Charles Demoulin

Chief Investment Officer, Deminor

Charles is a shareholder and executive director of Deminor. He is the acting Chief Investment Officer of Deminor..

Alessandro Di Giò

Counsel, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Alessandro is counsel in our ACT group in Rome. His practice covers all areas of EU and Italian competition law, as well as regulatory and antitrust litigation, audits, integration planning and compliance programs, foreign investment control…

Jan Eeckhout

ICREA research professor of Economics at UPF Barcelona

Jan Eeckhout is ICREA research professor of Economics at UPF Barcelona. He has teaching and research interests in macroeconomics, with a special emphasis on the labor market…

Liliana Eskenazi

Partner, Fréget Glaser & Associés

An accomplished EU and Competition Lawyer with extensive experience in both advisory work and litigation, Liliana handles complex cases before the EU and the French courts, as well as before the administrative authorities…

Cani Fernández

President of the Spanish Competition Authority

Cani Fernández is the President of the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (the Spanish Competition Authority) since she was appointed in June 2020….

Renato Ferrandi

Senior Competition Expert, OECD

Renato Ferrandi is the Senior Competition Expert and Coordinator of the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition at OECD (Italy)….

Jeremy Fleming

Chief Bureau, PaRR Brussels

With a decade of experience covering Brussels legal and political scene, Jeremy is a journalist with roots working as a solicitor in the City of London…

Kyriakos Fountoukakos

Herbert Smith Freehills Brussels, Partner

Kyriakos is the Herbert Smith Freehills Brussels office managing partner and EMEA Regional Head of Practice for Competition, Regulation and Trade….

Olivier Fréget

Partner, Fréget Glaser & Associés

Passionate and determined, a fine technician with a creative mind, Olivier Fréget spares neither his time nor his efforts for his clients…..

Thomas Funke

Partner, Osborne Clarke, Cologne and Brussels

Dr. Thomas G. Funke is the co-head of our international competition practice. He advises on antitrust litigation, cartel investigations and merger control….

Christopher Graf

Partner, Dentons

Based in London, Christopher Graf is a partner in Dentons’ Competition and Foreign Investment group in the UK…

Daniele Guarnieri

General Counsel, Nestlé

Daniele Guarnieri, General Counsel of the Nestlé Group in Italy. Prior to this experience, he held the position of Legal Affairs Manager for other leading companies in the FMCG sector for many years…

Domenico Gullo

Partner, DLA Piper

Domenico Gullo is a Partner in the Competition and Regulated Markets group within the Litigation & Regulatory department. He is based in the Rome office…

Joseph E. Harrington, Jr.

Professor, Department of Business Economics & Public Policy, The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Joe Harrington is the Patrick T. Harker Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at Wharton, and Professor of Norwegian School of Economics…

Fleur Herrenschmidt

Head Legal Region Europe, Novartis Pharma AG

Fleur has over 20 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical sector, starting her career as a lawyer in private practice, in international law firms, before moving in-house…

Justus Herrlinger

Partner, DLA Piper

Dr Justus Herrlinger has more than 15 years of experience in advising national and international clients on all aspects of European and German antitrust law…

Grania Holzwarth

Head of EU competition policy for Deutsche Telekom in Brussels

Grania Holzwarth is head of EU competition policy for Deutsche Telekom in Brussels. As part of the international competition team at DT, her focus has been ongoing competition cases in the field of telecoms mergers and antitrust cases in the ICT sector…

Patrick Hubert

Partner Orrick

Patrick Hubert, a Paris-based partner in the Antitrust & Competition group. Patrick is a leading authority in the field of antitrust, he brings decades of legal experience and innovation in both private practice and government…

Elisabetta Iossa

Commissioner, Italian Antitrust Authority

Elisabetta Iossa was nominated Commissioner at the Italian Antitrust Authority on 1st February 2022. She is full Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (on leave)…

Grímur Jóhannsson

Legal Manager, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)

Grímur is a Legal Manager in the Legal Affairs Team of EFPIA which he joined in 2020. EFPIA represents the biopharmaceutical industry operating in Europe…

Assimakis Komninos

Partner White & Case LLP

Assimakis Komninos is a partner at the Brussels office of White & Case LLP. He is also a visiting fellow of the Centre for Law and Governance in Europe at University College London (UCL) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Competition Law Centre (GCLC) at the College of Europe…

William E. Kovacic

Professor of Global Competition Law and Policy at George Washington University

William E. Kovacic is currently a professor of Global Competition Law and Policy and director of the Competition Law Center at the George Washington University…

Sebastian Krujatz

Director Legal & Regulations, Temasek

Sebastian Krujatz joined Temasek in 2016 and is a Director in the company’s Legal & Regulatory team. He advises on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters for Temasek …

Timothy Lamb

Director & Associate General Counsel for Competition, Facebook

Timothy Lamb is Director and Associate General Counsel for Competition at Facebook and manages a wide range of competition matters involving the company across Europe and APAC…

Valentina Laroccia

Head of Anti-Corruption, Antitrust & Financial Regulation Compliance, Eni Plenitude

Since February 2022, Valentina Laroccia is Head of Anti-Corruption, Antitrust & Financial Regulation Compliance at Eni Plenitude…

Natalia Latronico

Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Natalia Latronico is an associate based in the Milan office. Natalia Latronico’s practice focuses on EU and Italian competition law…

Ioannis Lianos

President, Hellenic Competition Commission

Dr. Ioannis Lianos serves as President of the Hellenic Competition Commission since 2019…

Marco Lo Bue

Legal Counsel Competition Law, Holcim

Marco Lo Bue (PhD, LLM) is an attorney with nearly 15 years in the field of competition law. He works at the Holcim Group in Zug, Switzerland…

Tilman Makatsch

Head of Competition Litigation & Antitrust Economics, Deutsche Bahn, Berlin

Tilman Makatsch is head of competition litigation and antitrust economics at Deutsche Bahn AG and managing director at DB Competition Claims GmbH…

Annamaria Mangiaracina

Partner, Linklaters

Annamaria is a partner in the Linklaters Antitrust and Foreign Investment Group practice, based in Brussels. She is a fully-rounded competition lawyer with considerable experience representing clients in international merger control…

Alessia Marrazzo

Partner, Lear

Alessia Marrazzo is a Partner at Lear. She has a wide experience in litigation cases, supporting clients in follow-on damages actions and international arbitration cases…

Pietro Merlino

Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

Pietro is a partner and the head of Orrick’s Antitrust & Competition practice in Italy. Pietro focuses on EU and Italian competition law, advising and representing Italian and international players on the entire spectrum of antitrust …

Francesca Miotto

Counsel, Allen & Overy

Francesca is counsel in the Brussels antitrust team and a member of the life sciences group. She acts on the full range of competition law issues across a variety of industries and has dealt extensively with the EU Commission and other regulators around the world…

Giorgio Monti

Professor, University of Tilburg and European University Institute

Giorgio is Professor of Competition Law at Tilburg Law School. He began his career in the UK (Leicester 1993-2001 and London School of Economics 2001-2010) before taking up the Chair in competition law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2010-2019)…

Teresa Moreira

Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of UNCTAD

Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development since 5 October 2016…

Carles Esteva Mosso

Partner, Latham & Watkins

Carles Esteva Mosso joined Latham & Watkins as antitrust partner in the Brussels office from the European Commission, where he was last Deputy Director-General of the Directorate General for Competition in charge of Merger Control…

Graciela Miralles Murciego

World Bank Group, Senior Economist

Graciela Miralles Murciego, PhD, LLM, is a lawyer at the Competition Policy Cluster of the World Bank Group…

Francesca Morra

Heads the Italian energy practice, Herbert Smith Freehills

Francesca heads the Italian energy practice at Herbert Smith Freehills. She specialises in energy and competition law. She has acquired material experience in the energy sector, where she has advised several market operators on contractual, regulatory and competition matters…

Ilaria Musco

General Counsel, Doctolib

Ilaria Musco is General Counsel of Doctolib in Italy, a French unicorn-scaleup that has recently entered also in Italy. With a passion for digital innovation and new technologies, the professional comes from Dazn, where she had joined immediately after the launch of the live sports streaming platform…

Salvatore Nava

Partner, Lear

Salvatore Nava is a Partner at Lear. He regularly assists clients in antitrust and litigation matters providing expert economic advice…

Morten Nissen

Partner, Bird & Bird

Morten is Co-head of Bird & Bird’s global Competition & EU practice group. Morten is a ranked competition lawyer (Legal500, GCR 100, Leaders League) and was in 2019 and 2021 awarded the Client Choice Awards by Lexology in the Competition & Antitrust category…

Alessandro Noce

Italian Competition Authority, Head of the Energy and Basic Industry Directorate

Born in Rome on 12 May 1965, Alessandro Noce graduated from the Luciano Manara High School in Rome, followed by a degree with honours in Economics from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (1989) and a Master of Science in Economics from the University of Warwick, UK (1991)…

Lefkothea Nteka

Partner, LAMBADARIOS & Associates Law Firm

Lefkothea Nteka is Partner in LAMBADARIOS & Associates Law Firm specialized in EU & Greek competition law…

Carmine Ornaghi

Professor in Economics- University of Southampton

CCarmine Ornaghi is Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton. He earned his PhD from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid in 2004…

Fabian Pape

Senior Case Handler, Bundeskartellamt’s 2^nd Decision Division

Dr. Fabian Pape is a Senior Case Handler in the Bundeskartellamt’s 2^nd Decision Division. Until recently, he was the Head of the German and European Merger Control Unit within the General Policies Division of the Bundeskartellamt…

Alberto Pera

Partner Gianni & Origoni

Alberto Pera, a former Secretary General of the Italian Competition Authority from 1990 to 2000, joined the firm in 2001 and founded the Antitrust Practice…

Nicola Pesaresi

Head of State aid Unit, Energy . DG Competition, European Commission

Nicola Pesaresi is Head of Unit at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. He is currently responsible for State aid in the Energy sector…

Andrea Pezzoli

Director General for Competition at the Italian Competition Authority

Andrea Pezzoli has been Director General for Competition at the Italian Competition Authority since 2014. In his current position he supervises the work of the five Competition Investigative Divisions…

Thomas Philippon

Professor of Finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business

Thomas Philippon is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at New York University, Stern School of Business…

Hardin Ratshisusu

Deputy Commissioner, Competition Commission of South Africa

Hardin Ratshisusu is Deputy Commissioner of the Competition Commission of South Africa appointed by the Minister of Economic Development in 2016…

Xandra Reintjes

Policy Officer, European Commission, Dg Comp

Xandra Reintjes works at the European Commission as Policy Officer within the Directorate-General for Competition (DG Competition)…

Elisabetta Righini

Partner, Latham & Watkins

Elisabetta (Betta) Righini is a partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice of Latham & Watkins. Her practice covers State aid, EU regulation and international trade…

Laura Rigo

Legal Counsel, HP

Laura Rigo is senior EMEA legal counsel at HP responsible for Litigation and Governmental Investigations. She handles domestic and international litigations, Competition law matters and investigations in the EMEA region…

Ana Sofia Rodrigues

Chief Economist at Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) – Portuguese Competition Authority

Ana Sofia Rodrigues has been the Chief Economist and Head of the Bureau of Economic Studies and Market Monitoring of the Portuguese Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) since October 2015…

Nancy L. Rose

Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics- MIT Economics Department

Nancy L. Rose is the Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics Department…

Francesco Maria Salerno

Partner, Gianni & Origoni

Francesco Maria Salerno is Managing Partner of the firm’s Brussels office. Francesco Maria has extensive experience in EU law, having acted in several matters before the EU Commission and the courts in Luxembourg

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Marieke Scholz

European Commission

Marieke heads the unit dealing with antitrust cases and policy in the energy and environment sector of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition…

Christof Schoser

Head of Taskforce, European Commission, Dg Comp

Christof Schoser is head of the European Commission’s Task Force for Third Country Subsidies and, in that capacity, has spearheaded the drafting and negotiation of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation…

Mari Scimemi

Director, Barclays Global Competition Team

Mari Scimemi is a Director in Barclays Global Competition Team, which she joined in 2015 after eight years as an associate in the Brussels and London offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer…

Fabienne Siredey-Garnier

Vice President at Autorité de la concurrence – French Competition Authority

Fabienne Siredey-Garnier has been appointed Vice President of the French Competition Authority in 2018. Vice-President of the Autorité de la concurrence…

Ermelinda Spinelli

Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Ermelinda covers EU and Italian competition law, with particular experience of cartel and dominance investigations, state-aid cases, merger reviews and antitrust compliance…

Alberto Toffoletto

Professor of Commercial and Company Law, Università degli Studi di Milano

Alberto Toffoletto, has extensive experience in Litigation & Arbitration, Law, Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity…

Mario Todino

Partner, Jones Day

Mario Todino has more than 25 years of experience in EU and Italian competition law, including 15 years in governmental roles in Italy and Brussels, as well as the European Court of Justice…

Alessandra Tonazzi

Director, Italian Competition Authority (AGCM)

Alessandra Tonazzi is Director of the International Affairs Office and acting Director of the European Affairs Office at the Italian Competition Authority (ICA)…

Katharine Trendacosta

Associate Director of Policy and Activism, EFF

Katharine is the Associate Director of Policy and Activism at EFF, where she coordinates EFF’s federal activism. Her areas of expertise are competition, broadband access, intellectual property, net neutrality, fair use, free speech online, and intermediary liability…