The European Digital Regulation Thursday 17 December 2020 Experiment: Innovation, growth & democracy Speaker biographies

Professor Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is the author of five books, including Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty and The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (both with James A. Robinson). His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks. Daron Acemoglu has received the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, the Jean- Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, and the Global Economy Prize in 2019. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, and the 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, the Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, the University of Bath, the Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, and the London Business School.

Professor Susan Athey is the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her PhD from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford and Harvard. Her current research focuses on the economics of digitization, marketplace design, and the intersection of econometrics and machine learning. She has worked on several application areas, including timber auctions, internet search, online advertising, the news media, and the application of digital technology to social impact applications. As one of the first “tech economists”, she served as consulting chief economist for Microsoft Corporation for six years, and now serves on the boards of Expedia, Lending Club, Rover, Turo, and Ripple, as well as non-profit Innovations for Poverty Action. She also serves as a long-term advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Forests, helping architect and implement their auction-based pricing system. She is the director of the Shared Prosperity and Innovation Initiative at Stanford GSB, and associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Thomas Philippon is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He was named one of the top 25 economists under 45 by the IMF and won the Bernácer Prize for Best European Economist. He currently serves as an academic advisor to the Financial Stability Board and to the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research. He was previously an advisor to the New York Federal Reserve Bank and a board member of the French prudential regulatory authority.

Dr Pierre Regibeau is the Chief Economist at DG Competition. He got a Ph.D in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at MIT, Northwestern University and the University of Essex before moving to Charles River Associates in 2011. He has written widely on a number of topics including standardization, intellectual property, competition policy and trade policy, and was editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics for more than ten years.

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Professor Marshall Van Alstyne is one of the leading experts in network business models. He conducts research on information economics, covering such topics as communications markets, the economics of networks, intellectual property, social effects of technology, and productivity effects of information. As co-developer of the concept of “two- sided networks” he has been a major contributor to the theory of network effects, a set of ideas now taught worldwide. His co-authored article on the subject is a Harvard Business Review top 50 of all time. Awards include two patents, National Science Foundation IOC, SGER, SBIR, iCorp and Career Awards, and eight best paper awards. Articles or commentary have appeared in Science, Nature, Management Science, Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Professor John Van Reenen OBE is the Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Digital Fellow at MIT. From 2016 to 2020, he was Gordon Y Billard Professor in Management and Economics at the MIT Department of Economics. Before then he was an LSE Professor and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance. He has worked on many cases involving mergers, competition inquiries and private litigation in Britain, the United States and at the European Commission. His major cases include the Microsoft case at the European Commission, the Reed/Harcourt merger and the Compass/Rail Gourmet merger in the UK, the UK Competition Commission inquiry into mobile phones, and the EC Phase II investigations in Norske- Skog/UPM/Haindl and GE/Honeywell. Professor Van Reenen’s clients have included a number of leading companies such as British Telecom, Centrica, Compass, McKinsey & Co, Ernst & Young, GSK, Orange, Pfizer and Sun Microsystems. He has also consulted for major international institutions such as the OECD, EC and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He received his BA from the University of Cambridge, his MSc from the London School of Economics and his PhD from University College London. He has been a Professor at University College London, Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an advisor to the Secretary of State for Health, Downing Street and other parts of the UK government. Professor Van Reenen has written over 100 published articles in peer- reviewed journals and books.

Dr Mike Walker is a leading expert on the economic aspects of competition policy, with nearly thirty years of experience in private practice, in-house and now at the UK’s competition authority. He has been the Chief Economic Adviser at the Competition and Markets Authority since October 2013. He holds academic positions at Kings College London and at the College of Europe in Bruges.

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Professor Timothy Wu: Widely known for coining the term net neutrality in 2002 and championing the equal access to the Internet, Tim Wu writes and teaches about private power, free speech, and information warfare. In recent years he has been a leader in the revitalization of American antitrust and has taken a particular focus on the growing power of the big tech platforms. His tech breakup proposals, adopted by candidates, formed a significant part of the 2020 presidential debate. A professor at Columbia Law School since 2006, Wu has also held posts in public service. He was enforcement counsel in the New York Attorney General’s Office, worked on competition policy for the National Economic Council for the Obama White House, and worked in antitrust enforcement at the Federal Trade Commission. In 2014, Wu was a Democratic primary candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York. In his most recent book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (2018), he argues that corporate and industrial concentration can lead to the rise of populism, nationalism, and extremist politicians. His previous books include The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (2016), The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (2010), and Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (2006), which he co-authored with Jack Goldsmith. Wu is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and also has written for Slate, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post. He once explained the concept of net neutrality to late-night host Stephen Colbert while he rode a rollercoaster. He has been named one of America’s 100 most influential lawyers by the National Law Journal; has made Politico’s list of 50 most influential figures in American politics (more than once), and has been included in the Scientific American 50 of policy leadership. He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions. Wu is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as a law clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. .

Dr Cristina Caffarra, Head of European Competition, Charles River Associates

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