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“European Copyright – Quo Vadis?” European Univeristy Insitute, 28-29 April 2017 . SPEAKERS INFORMATION Baker, Jennifer Better known as Brusselsgeek, Jennifer has been a journalist in print, radio and television for nearly 20 years, the last 8 specialising in EU policy and legislation in the technology sector — from data protection and privacy to copyright law; antitrust cases to international trade agreements. She has worked across a wide range of media, from editing a national daily paper in Malta, to reporting on European affairs for Middle Eastern television and has a wealth of experience in navigating the political quagmire of the EU. As well as an address book packed with insider sources and contacts in Brussels, Jennifer is skilled at translating EU policy-speak into understandable English. She is passionate about the importance of rigorous journalism to society believes ethical journalism should go hand in hand with conviction on human rights issues. She is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, and last year was named by Onalytica as one of the world's Top 100 Influencers on Data Security 2016. She has written for some of the biggest names in the business, ArsTechnica, Computerweekly, Macworld, PCworld and CIO (as part of the renowned IDG News Service team), and The Register. She regularly features as an EU tech expert on BBC radio. Benifei, Brando Brando Benifei, 31, European Federalist, is one of the youngest MEPs and is from La Spezia, Italy. He has been chair of European affairs for the Young Democrats and Vice-President of ECOSY (youth organization of PES) for 4 years and was part of the PES working group which originally drafted the European Youth Guarantee. His main fields of legislative work in the EP are Employment and social affairs and Foreign affairs. He is co-chair of the Youth Intergroup and vice-chair of the Disability Intergroup. Among his parliamentary activities in the Committee of Employment and Social Affairs, he was responsible for key legislative and non-legislative reports on the social inclusion and integration of refugees into the EU labour market; youth employment policy such as the Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative. He is very active on digitalisation and innovation, throughout different platforms and networks, most recently specifically on the copyright reform. Caso, Roberto Roberto Caso, co-director of Trento LawTech Group, is Associate Professor of Comparative Private Law at University of Trento, Faculty of Law, where he teaches Civil Law [Diritto civile], Comparative Intellectual Property Law, Comparative Privacy Law, Copyright law and Art, Private Law and ICTs. He is author and editor of many publications in the field of Intellectual Property, Privacy, Contract Law and Tort Law. He is President of the Italian Association for the Promotion of Open Science [Asssociazione Italiana per la promozione della Scienza Aperta, AISA] and Associate member of McGill Faculty of Law CIPP - Montréal. Comodini Cachia, Therese MEP Therese Comodini Cachia (EPP, Malta) is a lawyer by profession. She was elected as Member of the European Parliament in 2014, and is a member of the JURI, CULT, DROI and 1 “European Copyright – Quo Vadis?” European Univeristy Insitute, 28-29 April 2017 PANA committees. She has worked on Digital Single Market related files such as that of geo- blocking, cultural and creative industries, 5G as well as on the implementation of Infosoc. She is currently rapporteur for the Copyright Directive report in the Legal Affairs Committee. Curtin, Deirdre Joint Chair Professor of European Union Law at the EUI since September 2015. Director of the Centre for Judicial Cooperation at the Robert Schuman Centre and Professor of European Law and Governance of the University of Amsterdam since 2008, Prof. Curtin also held the Chair in European and International Governance at the Utrecht School of Governance of the University of Utrecht for almost a decade. Earlier she was Professor of the Law of International Organizations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Utrecht (1992-2002). Deirdre Curtin was also the founding director of the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), a centre of excellence of the Faculty of Law at the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Curtin is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW, 2003), a laureate of the Spinoza prize by the Dutch Scientific Organization (NWO, 2007) for research in the field of European law and governance. Prof. Curtin holds an Honorary Doctorate in law by the University College in Dublin (2008) and in 2013 was elected an Honorary Bencher by the King's Inn, Dublin. De Cock, Caroline Ms Caroline De Cock is coordinator of the Copyright 4 Creativity (C4C) coalition. She is the founder and Managing Director of N-square Consulting (N²), a Brussels-based public affairs firm. Prior to that, she was Director of Regulatory Operation and Policy for the COLT Telecom Group and Director of EU Affairs at Cable & Wireless. She also worked as Legal Adviser at Stanbrook & Hooper, a Competition law firm, and was Deloitte’s youngest Manager worldwide at the age of 24. She is the author of ‘iLobby.eu: Survival Guide to EU Lobbying, Including the Use of Social Media’. Falce, Valeria Valeria Falce is Full Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law at the European University of Rome and Non- 2 “European Copyright – Quo Vadis?” European Univeristy Insitute, 28-29 April 2017 (with merits) in Intellectual Property from the London School of Economics. Admitted to the Italian Bar in 1999, she currently advices as Off Counsel of a leading international Law Firm. Visiting Professor at the Centre for European Studies, King’s College, University of London, she has been Visiting at the Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (2013-2015), Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Columbia University School of Law and New York University Law Centre. Valeria teaches Competition Law and Regulation; Intellectual Property and Copyright. Her current research focuses on Regulation, Competition, Consumer Law and Intellectual Property. Frosio, Giancarlo Giancarlo is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI), University of Strasbourg. Giancarlo dedicated most of his academic career to studying the interface between technology, innovation, creativity, and intellectual property through the lens of international, European and American law. Giancarlo is a qualified attorney with a doctoral degree in IP law from Duke Law School. Additionally, he holds an LL.M. from Duke Law School, an LL.M. in IT and Telecoms law from Strathclyde University, and a law degree from Università Cattolica of Milan. Giancarlo is also a Non- Residential Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Previously— from 2013 to 2016—he was the Intermediary Liability Fellow with Stanford CIS. At Stanford CIS, Giancarlo launched the intermediary liability research focus area of the Center, the World Intermediary Liability Map (WILMap), and the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab). Since 2013, Giancarlo also serves as affiliate faculty at the Harvard CopyrightX program, where he lectures and coordinates the Turin University Affiliated Course, whose first edition he personally launched. He is a Lecturer of the LL.M. in Intellectual Property law jointly organized by WIPO and the University of Turin, where he also served as the Deputy Director and Lecturer from 2010 to 2013. He is a Faculty Associate of the NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society in Turin. Previously, Giancarlo served as a post-doctoral researcher at KU Leuven Center for IT & IP (CiTiP), COMMUNIA Fellow at the NEXA Center and CREATe Fellow at the University of Nottingham. As a COMMUNIA and CREATe fellow, Giancarlo drafted extensive reports on the digital public domain and open access publishing respectively. As an attorney, Giancarlo worked with the Intellectual Property & Technology Group of a prominent international law firm. Giancarlo is the author of numerous legal articles and publications. Furgał, Ula Ula is a PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, working under the supervision of Prof. Giovanni Sartor. Her doctoral research focuses on the role of copyright in the regulation of online news publishing. Prior to coming to the EUI Ula has received LL.M. in European and International IP Law from Trinity College Dublin and Masters in Law from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Ula has previously worked as an IP & data protection lawyer and consumer rights’ advisor. Her research interests focus on copyright, information and internet law. Giorello, Marco Marco Giorello is acting head of the copyright unit in the European Commission, DG CONNECT. 3 “European Copyright – Quo Vadis?” European Univeristy Insitute, 28-29 April 2017 An Italian national, lawyer by training, he has worked in the European Commission for more than 15 years covering different areas of the Internal Market policy such as public procurement, freedom to provide services and copyright. Before joining the Commission he worked in an Italian law firm and as teaching assistant on EU law matters. He is a qualified lawyer in Italy and holds an LLM in European Law from the College of Europe in Bruges (1998). Marco Giorello is working in the Commission's unit responsible for the EU copyright policy since 2011, first in the former DG Internal Market and Services and, since end 2014, in DG Connect. Giovanella, Federica Federica Giovanella is post-doc fellow at the Department of Engineering and Information Science of the University of Trento as well as a fellow of the LawTech research group at the same university. Federica also teaches Comparative Privacy Law at the Faculty of Law of the mentioned university. Federica's research interests and publications focus on ICT law, especially on ISPs' liability, privacy and copyright.