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Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business

USA

Susan Athey is The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she is a founding co-director of the Digital Business Initiative. She received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her Ph.D. from Stanford, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Duke University. She previously taught at the economics departments at MIT, Stanford and Harvard. In 2007, Professor Athey received the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded by the American Economic Association to “that American economist under the age of forty who is adjudged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.” She was elected to the National Academy of Science in 2012 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. Professor Athey’s research focuses on the economics of the internet, the news media, marketplace design, and the intersection of computer science, machine learning and economics, and most recently virtual currencies. She advises governments and businesses on the design of auction-based marketplaces, notably serving since 2007 as a long-term consultant to Microsoft Corporation in a variety of roles, including several years as consulting chief economist. She serves on the Board of Directors of Ripple Labs, a financial services technology startup, as well as the Board of CoinCenter. She is an advisor to early stage venture capital fund X/Seed Capital and financial technology venture capital fund NYCA Partners.

 

Martijn Bal, Director, iMinds Media

Belgium

After studies at the Antwerp conservatory (theatre) a job at a newspaper, a life in the music industry, Martijn discovered television and was there when in 1989 VTM (Belgiums first commercial television station) was founded.
Martijn learned all about “making television programs” at ID TV Belgium as floor manager, director, editor, producer… A real self made man within the business.
Later on he worked for the well known production company Kladaradatch. He lived in Amsterdam while working for IDTV Holland.
This short intermezzo abroad was followed by nine years at the Vlaamse Media Maatchappij, where he worked for “VTM”. First as producer, later on as Head of Entertainment.
After being asked to join the public broadcaster (VRT) he traded “Vmma” for “Eén” where he worked as Deputy Channel Manager, responsible for all local produced programs of the channel.
After having spent so many years in traditional television, Martijn switched from “old” to “new media”. Head of Digital Media at the Vlaamse Media Maatschappij. Within the first years his department was able to launch three digital television channels, develop red button usage and a very strong VOD offer under a new created brand “iWatch”. Being responsible for the online offer, he rolled out a syndication video network, where all major sites benefit from Vmma video content.
At the beginning of 2012 Martijn, worked as Creative Senior producer at the production Company De Filistijnen.
In March of the same year, he was asked to become director of the MiX. The newly formed Media Innovation Centre. Working for the entire Media Market in Flanders (all broadcasters, publishers and gaming sector) the goal is to translate fundamental research into concrete innovation projects.

Twitter: @martijnbal

 

Xavier Bouckaert, COO and Director Magazines, Roularta Media Group

Belgium

Xavier Bouckaert was born in Senlis (France). He obtained a Law and Notary degree at the Catholic University of Leuven. He started his professional career in 2000 at the notary office Du Fauw in Mouscron.
In 2005 he began as company lawyer at Roularta Media Group and in 2008 he become Group Controller. As from 2010 he is the COO and Director Magazines of the company.

 

Christoph Fiedler, Managing Director for European Affairs and Media Policy

Germany

Dr. Christoph Fiedler is a German lawyer and Managing Director for European Affairs and Media Policy at VDZ, the Association of German Magazine Publishers. Fiedler studied at the University of Bonn. In his PhD thesis, which was published in 1999, he focused on media law.
Fiedler is a lecturer at the universities of Düsseldorf and Leipzig. Since 2004 he is Chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Magazine Media Association (EMMA). He has authored various publications about constitutional and European questions regarding media freedoms. As an expert, he participated at hearings on data retention, the amendment of German data protection law and the law on the strengthening of press freedom at the German Bundestag

 

Robin Foster, Founder, Communications Chambers

United Kingdom

Robin Foster is an economist specialising in policy, strategy and regulation in the media and telecommunications sectors. He is a Founder of London-based media consultants Communications Chambers. He is currently also an independent member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board, a member of the Electronic Communications Expert Advisory Panel at ComReg, the Irish communications regulator, and is an independent Board member of the UK Authority for TV On-demand (ATVOD). In recent years he has been a member of the UK Government’s Digital Britain steering board and leader of the Global Communications Consortium policy and research programme at London Business School.
Robin previously led the strategy and regulatory teams at the BBC, Independent Television Commission and Ofcom, and was an executive board member at all three organisations. Prior to these roles, he was a director at economic consultants, NERA.
Robin has written extensively on media economics, the future of media markets, and media plurality. He is the author of “News plurality in a digital world” for the Reuters Institute, which assessed the role and potential power of digital intermediaries or gateways, and has presented evidence on media plurality to the UK’s House of Lords Communications Committee, and to the Leveson Inquiry.

 

Andy Grant, Global Head of Software, Agfa Graphics

Belgium

Andy Grant has more than 25 years experience in the Graphics industry first with Crosfield Electronics, then Fujifilm and since 1998 with Agfa Graphics.
Using his background in software development, he has been directly involved in Agfa’s strategy and solutions for the Graphics Workflow market.
In his current role he is responsible for managing all of Agfa Graphics’ software business

 

Jörgen Gren, Member of Cabinet of Vice-President Ansip, European Commission

Sweden

Jörgen Gren, a Swedish national, is currently a member of the cabinet of M Ansip, Vice-president of the European Commission and responsible for the Digital Single Market.
He recently worked in DG INFSO/CONNECT, as head of unit dealing with Digital Agenda for Europe Coordination and Digital Single Market Policy. He also worked there as deputy head of unit, negotiating the financial framework for the Connecting Europe Facility on broadband and digital services as well as coordination of impact assessments.
Jörgen Gren served as head of the press/media unit (press counsellor) for the 2009 Swedish presidency. Directly prior to the Swedish presidency, he was a member of the cabinet of Ms Hübner, Polish commissioner for regional policy.
His career in the Commission started in 1996 and he has held administrator posts in DG TREN (air transport regulation) and DG REGIO (Evaluation officer, responsible for structural policy operations in France, Estonia, Ireland and parts of Finland).
Jörgen started his career in the private sector working as a systems programmer for IBM in Sweden and, later, as head of European Affairs in Kreab-Gavin Anderson, an international consultancy based in Brussels.
He was educated in France (MA, institut d’études politiques) and in the UK at Queens’ college, Cambridge (M.Phil, PhD).
In his free time, Jörgen reads, walks, experiences the sea and nature preferably on his native Swedish west coast, goes to the cinema and does some lecturing at the university of Sorbonne, Paris on economic development issues and Cost-Benefit Analysis methodology (Master level).

 

Natali Helberger, Professor of Information Law, University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Natali Helberger is professor in Information Law at the Institute for Information Law. Natali specializes in the regulation of converging information and communications markets. Focus points of her research are the interface between technique and information law, user rights and the changing role of the user in information law and policy. Natali has conducted research for the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and national governments and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences. As member of the High Level Group Connect Advisory Forum she advices the European Commission on the future direction of Horizon2020.

 

Jens Henneberg, Executive Vice President and Editorial Director, Bonnier Publication

Denmark

Jens Henneberg is executive vice president and editorial director at Bonnier Publication – the largest magazine publisher in the Nordic countries with more than 40 titles in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Bonnier Publications has headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jens Henneberg holds a degree in journalism from the Danish School of Journalism and was editor in chief of the flagship title Science Illustrated before taking his current position.

 

Jonathan Hill, Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Tibor Navracsocs

European Commission

Jonathan Hill has worked in Brussels since 1995. He joined the European Commission in February 2010, and is now the Head of Cabinet for Commissioner Navracsics.
Jonathan started his career in Brussels with the consultancy, APCO Worldwide (1997-2003), advising corporations on their communications strategy across Europe and their government relations in Brussels. In 2003, he opened the Brussels office of UEFA, the governing body of European football.
Jonathan studied at the College of Europe (Warsaw) in 1994-95, the University of Paris-Est in 1992-93 (Masters in European Geopolitics), and the University of Bradford, UK, in 1998-92 (First-Class BA Honours in French and German).

 

Michaela Kammerbauer, Chief Operating Officer, clipkit

Germany

Michaela joined clipkit as Head of Publisher Management & Development and is acting as COO since July 2013. She is responsible for publisher management, ad operations, content and licensing as well as Marketing. Previously experience includes Senior Director Global Sales Operations at zanox and Head of Sales and Marketing at WissGroup, a technology startup sold in 2007.

Twitter: @micklalala
 

Christoph Keese, Executive Vice President, Axel Springer SE

Germany

Christoph Keese is Executive Vice President of Axel Springer SE. Reporting di-rectly to CEO Dr. Mathias Döpfner Mr. Keese is deeply involved in the company’s transformation from print to digital with a strong focus on content business. Recently he spent six months as Visiting Fellow in Axel Springer’s Palo Alto office to explore digital innovation and investment opportunities.
Prior to his current position, Mr. Keese was Editor in Chief of Axel Springer’s WELT am SONNTAG, Germany’s leading Sunday paper, and WELT ONLINE, a leading news portal.
Mr. Keese studied economics at Frankfurt University and is a graduate of Hamburg Journalists’ School / Henri Nannen School. He started his career as assistant to the CEO of Publisher Gruner + Jahr, spokesperson of G+J and Managing Editor of Ber-liner Zeitung.
He has authored several high-profile books, i.e. “Rettet den Kapitalismus” (Save Capitalism) and “Verantwortung jetzt” (Responsibility Now).
He runs a private blog on media and internet policy (www.presseschauder.de).

 

Daniel Knapp, Director, Advertising, IHS Technology

United Kingdom

Daniel Knapp, director of advertising research, is a recognized expert on advertising industry trends and strategies, media consumption patterns and online privacy. At IHS, Daniel manages teams in London and Shanghai responsible for forecasting and analyzing global advertising markets and key companies across all media (e.g. TV, radio, print,out-of-home, online, mobile).
Mr. Knapp has more than 10 years of experience in the media sector across business, government and academia. He regularly advises senior management at international media and technology companies, regulators and private equity firms on strategy, market opportunities and business practice. His clients include RTL, Walt Disney Studios, Telefonica, Deutsche Bank and the European Commission. Knapp is a regular speaker at industry events and policy workshops and is frequently quoted in the international consumer and specialist press. Knapp and his team have been selected as research partners by IAB Europe, the online advertising trade association, for whom they conduct Adex Benchmark, the reference study for online advertising expenditure in Europe.
Prior to his appointment at IHS, Mr. Knapp worked in media policy at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany). As a Research Fellow at the European Institute for the Media, an academic think tank, Knapp worked on the German chapter for the World Internet Project, a large-scale survey on internet consumption coordinated by the USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future and co-edited a UNESCO-funded research on media violence.
Mr. Knapp holds an MS degree from the London School of Economics and a BA in Government and Communication Sciences from the University of Erfurt, Germany. He is also currently completing a PhD in media sociology at Goldsmiths College, London. Mr. Knapp has been published in academic books and journals, trade publications and cultural periodicals.

 

Christophe Leclercq, Founder, EurActiv.com

Belgium

Christophe Leclercq launched the leading online EU policy media EurActiv in 1999 and managed it for ten years. Christophe now focuses predominantly on its overall strategy, deepening its Europe-wide network, as well as its external relations. Previously, he worked at the European Commission and was a management consultant with McKinsey.

 

Paul Lee, Founder, Ecuiti LLC

United States

Paul Lee is the founder of Ecuiti, LLC in San Francisco, California, and is one of the world’s leading experts in competition within the connected world of online and mobile services and technology. Ecuiti provides solutions that help companies harness and transform the power of data and analytics into a differentiating, tangible asset. He and his team develop leading-edge, disruptive analytical insights from some of the world’s largest “Big Data” sources. His research and analysis of innovative technologies is the basis for his strategy counsel to clients and guidance for government regulators regarding online competition issues around the globe. Prior to founding Ecuiti, Paul was partner at Keystone Strategy, an economics and strategy consulting firm, where he provided strategy, analytical and expert witness services to Fortune 500 companies, most notably serving as Microsoft’s chief market analyst for competition issues in online services. With over 20 years experience driving high tech innovation, he has also held roles at Gartner, Scient, PRTM, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University and Stanford University.

 

Angela Mills Wade, Executive Director, European Publishers Council

Belgium

Angela Mills Wade is a senior consultant specialising in media (TV and Press), advertising and internet issues with 25 years’ experience of working with companies, trade associations, lobby groups and other umbrella organisations at the European level. Angela has successfully established contacts with a wide range of government officials, politicians, industry representatives and journalists at European, UK and US level. Furthermore, since 1991 she has been the Executive Director of the European Publishers’ Council and co-ordinator of the British Internet Publishers Alliance.
In her earlier career, Angela worked for Schlumberger, Total Oil and Davum Steel. She then served as the Head of European Affairs and Special Issues at the UK Advertising Association (1989-1991), European Executive for the ITV Companies’ Association (1983-1987) and also at the Retail Consortium (1980-1983). She represented these bodies on the Boards of their counter-part European level associations.
She has led a number of successful campaigns inter alia to protect the freedom of the press, to promote the ability of private media companies to invest across all media, the freedom to advertise and to develop new online services. She has worked with companies and a number of trade associations on a broad range of issues including all aspects of media and advertising, financial services employment and social affairs, industrial policy, health and safety and consumer protection. She has also been instrumental in setting up the Linked Content Coalition, a Europe-wide project designed to encourage the media and creative industries to work with existing standards organisations to create interoperability and commonality in online rights management.

 

Mario Tedeschini Lalli, Deputy Director, Innovation and Development, Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso

Italy

Mario Tedeschini-Lalli is Deputy Director, Innovation and Development at the Italian media company Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso where he helps define digital policies. He went digital in 1997, after many years in print journalism as a reporter and an editor, mostly covering foreign affairs. He has been managing editor of Repubblica.it, CNNitalia.it, and Kataweb.it, where he led a small team experimenting with multimedia narratives. He is also a part-time teacher of Digital Journalism and History of Journalism, and a member of the Board of the Online News Association (ONA).

 

Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, MEP, European Parliament

Spain

Ramon Tremosa i Balcells (born 30 June 1965) is a Democratic Convergence of Catalonia politician. The Liberal Party at the government of Cataluña at the moment. He follows the Economic and International Trade committee in the EP as well as the USA and Israel Delegation.
Tremosa is an economics graduate of the University of Barcelona, where he lectured until his election to the European Parliament. He was also visiting Professor of the London School of Economics in London for a year before he was elected to the EP.
His point of interest and economics, transport, logistics, Trade and competition cases in Particular in the digital market field and the Google antitrust case.
In the previous legislature; in ECON committee, he was the Rapporteur on the European Central Bank report, the Financial supervision dossier and also the Financial Transaction Tax file.
In the Transport committee, he was the Liberal shadow rapporteur in the Recast of the First railway package in order to remove physical and regulatory barriers and complete the Single market in the railway sector.
Previously, he also worked in the ministry of social welfare of the Government of Catalonia.
He is from Cataluña and leaves with his family 3 kids (a daughter and 2 twins) in Barcelona city centre. He very much enjoys football as well and as you can imagine FC Barcelona is his team:-)

Twitter: @ramontremosa

 

Auke Visser

Netherlands

Auke Visser is President of EMMA and has held the position since October 2014. He brings to EMMA years of publishing experience of working in Europe’s publishing sector.
Prior to joining EMMA, Auke was the marketing manager of various magazines for the Dutch media company VNU and CEO of the VNU publishing company De Geïllustreerde Pers and the ad sales company Admedia. The magazine division of VNU was sold in 2001 to Sanoma WSOY.
Following his role as publishing director of all Dutch magazines of Sanoma Magazines NL, Auke was appointed as CEO of Sanoma Men’s Magazines. He spent 17 years as the President of the Dutch Magazine Publishing Association (NUV). Auke was also actively involved in EMMA as Vice-Chairman of its Corporate Advisory Group between 2008 and 2013.

 
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