Invited speakers

Luca Arnaudo

General Directorate at Italian Medicines Agency – AIFA

Luca Arnaudo, Ph.D., works since July 2020 at the Italian Medicines Agency, where he deals with competition and innovation issues both at the general directorate and international office, after having served since 2001 as an investigative officer at the Italian Competition Authority…

Michele Carpagnano

Partner, Dentons

Michele Carpagnano is a partner and the head of the Italian Competition and Antitrust practice. in Dentons’ Rome office…

Lorenzo Ciari

Manager IFC, World Bank Group

Lorenzo is a Manager in the Sector Economics Department at IFC, part of the World Bank Group, where he supervises the development impact assessment of IFC’s investments in private sector…

Andrea Coscelli

Chief Executive of the Competition and Markets Authority

Andrea Coscelli is the Chief Executive of the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA). He was awarded a CBE for services to Competitive Markets…

Daniel A. Crane

Frederick Paul Furth, Sr. Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Daniel Crane is the Frederick Paul Furth Sr. Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He served as the associate dean for faculty and research from 2013 to 2016…

Thomas Deisenhofer

Principal Adviser in DG Competition, EU

Since January 2021 Thomas Deisenhofer is Principal Adviser in DG Competition in the European Commission responsible for economic ex post evaluation of competition enforcement and policy…

Adriaan Dierx

Senior Expert, DG Comp, European Commission

Adriaan Dierx is a senior expert on ex-post economic evaluation within the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission. . He has managed a number of studies aimed at evaluating the economic impact of the European Commission’s competition…

Tomaso Duso

Head of the Firms and Markets Department, DIW Berlin

Tomaso Duso is Senior Advisor at Lear. He is head of the Department Firms and Markets at the DIW Berlin, a professor of empirical (industrial) economics at the Technical University Berlin…

Enrico Fabrizi

Partner, Osborne Clarke

Enrico heads Osborne Clarke Italy’s competition and antirust team. He specialises in national and European Union competition law and his work covers the entire spectrum of antitrust activities…

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….

Jeremy Fleming

Chief Bureau, Parr’s 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…

Tünde Gönczöl

Counsel at Dentons

Based in Budapest, Tünde Gönczöl is a counsel and co-head of Dentons’ Competition and Antitrust group in Hungary. Tünde has extensive experience in advising clients from a wide range of industries…

Olivier Guersent

Director-General, Dg Comp, European Commission

Guersent has been Director-General for DG Competition since January 2020, having previously held the position of Director-General of Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union…

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…

Bora İkiler

Partner at BASEAK

Based in Istanbul, Bora İkiler is a partner and member of BASEAK’s Competition and Antitrust group in Turkey. Bora has wide experience in competition law, corporate and commercial law, data protection law…

Fabienne Ilzkovitz

Principal Adviser at DG Competition, EU and Associate Professor, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Fabienne Ilzkovitz is Principal Adviser responsible for economic evaluation of competition policy in the Competition Directorate General of the European Commission…

Thomas Janssens

Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Thomas heads Freshfields’ global antitrust, competition and trade practice – a role that he combines with his dynamic and broad client practice…

Eleanor M. Fox

Professor of Trade Regulation, NY University

Eleanor M. Fox is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law. Before joining the faculty of NYU Law, Fox was a partner at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett…

Jörg Karenfort

Partner and Global Head of Competition and Antitrust at Dentons

Based in Berlin, Jörg Karenfort is Head of Dentons’ Global Competition and Antitrust group. Jörg advises clients on European and German competition and regulatory law. He has comprehensive expertise in dealing with German and European merger control…

Katherine Kirrage

Partner Osborne Clarke

Katherine is an experienced Partner, with a particular focus on the application of competition law to new technologies and business models. Katherine represents clients before UK and EU Competition Regulators and is currently advising a leading payments company…

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…

Marc Kuijper

Partner at Dentons

Based in Amsterdam, Marc Kuijper is Managing Partner of Dentons in Amsterdam and heads Dentons’ Competition and Antitrust group in the Netherlands. He also co-heads the Antitrust Litigation team the Netherlands…

Damjan Kukovec

Senior Lecturer in Law, Middlesex School of Law in London

Damjan Kukovec is a Senior Lecturer in Law and a Co-Leader of the PhD Programme at Middlesex School of Law in London. Before joining the Middlesex faculty, Dr Kukovec taught at Harvard Law School…

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…

Ioannis Lianos

President, Hellenic Competition Commission

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

Nicola Lopez

Associate General Counsel and Head of EIMEA Global Privacy Compliance and Cybersecurity, Procter & Gamble

Nicola is currently Associate General Counsel Southern Europe and Head of Europe Privacy, Cybersecurity & IT Law with the Procter & Gamble Company….

Bruce Lyons

Professor of Economics, University of East Anglia

Bruce Lyons is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy (CCP). He is a member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy (EAGCP) to the European Commission…

Jean-Nicolas Maillard

Partner at Dentons

Based in Brussels and Paris, Jean-Nicolas Maillard is a partner in Dentons’ Competition and Antitrust group. Jean-Nicolas’ practice focuses on EU and French competition law, in particular cartel and other antitrust investigations…

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 …

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…

Valerie Mueller

Principal Economist, Competition, EBRD

Valerie Mueller is the Principal Economist, Competition, at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. As part of her role, she manages capacity building projects with Competition Authorities…

Peter Ormosi

Professor of Competition Economics, University of East Anglia

Peter Ormosi is an Associate Professor of Competition Economics at University of East Anglia. His research is focused on various issues in law and economics…

Alberto Pera

Partner Gianni & Origoni

Alberto Pera, is a partner of Studio Gianni & Origoni (GOP) and founder of the Antitrust practice. He is a former Secretary General of the Italian Competition Authority from 1990 to 2000. Alberto is one of the leading figures in the field of Italian Antitrust and Competition….