Bo Andersson, Chief Economist, Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS)
Bo Andersson has been the Chief Economist of the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) since 2006.
Mr Andersson has more than 15 years of experience from infra structure industries. Bo Andersson has a Ph.D. in economics from Stockholm School of Economics and has a background as a researcher. He has written several papers and journal articles on price formation and competition in deregulated markets. Prior to his current position he was a market analyst in the power sector and a consultant working for different government agencies and industries.
Acting for the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, Mr Andersson is dedicated to strengthen and develop the Swedish IT infrastructure in order to continue to be one of the leading IT nations in the world.
Peter Culham, Chief Economist, Ofcom
Peter Culham is Ofcom's Chief Economist. Peter joined Ofcom as Director of Competition Economics in 2003 and was made Chief Economist in 2005. Before joining Ofcom he was Chief Economist at Oftel. He joined the Government Economic Service (GES) in 1979 and before joining Oftel he previously worked as an economist in a number of Government Departments (Environment, Transport, Defence).
Jérôme Coutant, Board Member, ARCEP
Jérôme Coutant is a graduate of the Ecole supérieure de commerce de Paris. After having begun his carreer, in auditing, he joined the banking-insurance division of Hewlett-Packard in 1986, before becoming the director of Motorola's paging division in 1993 where he worked on developing paging solutions for the consumer market. In 1998 Mr. Coutant was appointed Director of Motorola's mobile arm and, in 2000, he became the co-founder and President of Printperso, an online printer which now operates under the name of Veoprint.
In 2002, he joined the Caisse des Dépôts which had just been commissioned by the State to assist in digital regional development, and was appointed head of this programme for the whole of south-western France.
In 2007, Mr. Coutant was chosen to head up the digital regional development cluster of the inter-ministerial land planning and regional action delegation, DATAR (Délégation interministérielle à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'attractivité régionale) and, in July 2009, was recruited to the cabinet by Michel Mercier, the Minister responsible for Rural affairs and regional development, as an adviser on public services and the digital economy.
Roland Doll, Vice President International Government Affairs, Group Headquarters Deutsche Telekom
Roland Doll studied law at Universities of Frankfurt and Lausanne. He is a post-graduate in international commercial law of the University of Aberdeen (UK) and had appointments as assistant professor at University of Frankfurt and as researcher in telecommunications law and regulation. 1997 he joined Deutsche Telekom as Assistant Director for Government Relations and Regulatory Affairs. In 2000 he was appointed Vice President International Regulatory Affairs at Deutsche Telekom. Since 2003 he is holding the position of Vice President International Government Affairs in the Group Headquarters of Deutsche Telekom. During his professional career he published several articles on telecommunications law and regulation.
Richard Feasey, Public Policy Director, Vodafone Group
Richard is the Public Policy Director for the Vodafone Group, coordinating global public policy and regulatory affairs throughout Vodafone’s operating companies including Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. He has held this role since 2001. Richard has worked in the communications sector since 1991and in the United States prior to that.
Chris Fonteijn, Chairman BEREC 2011 and Chairman of the Regulatory Authority of the Netherlands (ΟPTA)
(1955, Den Haag), studied law in Leiden; during his years in military service, he worked in the Military Intelligence Service. From 1980, until his appointment as Chairman of the Commission of OPTA on September 1st 2005, Chris worked as a lawyer at NautaDutilh in Rotterdam, where he became a partner in 1988. He specialized in Business and Energy Law, and over the years he held a variety of positions at NautaDutilh; for several years he worked for NautaDutilh in the Middle East. During his last years at NautaDutilh, Chris was director of the Energy & Utilities Group.
In 2011, Chris Fonteijn is chairman of BEREC.
Magnus Franklin, Chief Correspondent, Mlex
Magnus Franklin is Chief Correspondent for MLex ITM since October 2008, providing comprehensive coverage of regulatory and legal developments in the telecoms, media and IT sectors both in Brussels and across Europe. He was previously an analyst and reporter on Mobile Communications Europe and Telecom Markets. Magnus studied journalism and economics in London, and works in English, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian.
Reinald Krüger, Head of Unit - Procedures related to National Regulatory Measures, DG Information Society, European Commission
Reinald Krüger is Head of Unit in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission and responsible for the Article 7 Consultation Mechanism on national regulatory measures in the electronic communications sector. Reinald started his career in the European Commission in 1995. He worked in the Industry Directorate-General on trade and industrial policy related tasks (until October 2000) and the Competition Directorate-General (until September 2008). In the latter, he was Deputy Head of the “Antitrust Telecoms” unit and Case manager of major antitrust telecoms cases under Article 82 of EC Treaty.
Before he joined the Commission, Reinald was Head of the Research Group “Industrial Economics and Competition Policy” at one of the leading German economics research institutes, the HWWA-Institute in Hamburg. In 1989, he was a Consultant with the US antitrust authority Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and in 1990 a Competition Expert to the World Bank. Reinald is an economist by training and author of 34 publications in the areas of industrial economics, competition policy and transition economics.
Martijn Meijers, Deputy Director Markets, OPTA
Martijn Meijers (1970) is Deputy director of the Markets Department of OPTA, the Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority of the Netherlands. Martijn joined OPTA in 1998 as Economic advisor, focusing on tariff regulation. From late 2005 to mid 2010 he worked as Program manager and was as such responsible for OPTA’s second round of market analyses. Since mid 2010 Martijn is part of the management team of the Markets department, the department within OPTA in charge of market regulation. Martijn started his career in the ministry of Transport, Public transport and Water Management and studied Economics at Wageningen University.
Mario Mella, Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Committee, Fastweb SpA
Mario Mella is Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Committee of FASTWEB.
Born in 1964 in Milan, an electronic engineer, he is responsible for the technological areas and operating processes relating to the Network and Information Technology.
Chairman of E.bismedia Board of Directors.
He joined Fastweb during the start-up in 1999, in charge of Broadband access technology and the implementation of the Fibre to the Home project. In 2003 he was project leader for the launch of unicast and multicast IPTV over DSL.
Previously he worked for eight years in the telecommunication sector in increasingly senior positions in development and implementation of broadband networks in Italy and abroad.
Dr Karl-Heinz Neumann, General Manager and Director, WIK-Consult GmbH
Dr Karl-Heinz Neumann, born November 24, 1953, is a graduate of the University of Bonn with a Ph.D. in Economics, he rejoined WIK in April 2001 as General Manager and Director of WIK GmbH and WIK-Consult GmbH, a position he had previously held until 1995.
From 1995 to 2001 he worked for RWE Telliance AG as Executive Director for strategy, regulation and national projects. In the last two years he was Member of the Management Board of the company. In this position he also acted as Member of the Board and as Member of the Supervisory Board of several national and international telecommunications companies.
Besides his telecommunications industry experience, Karl-Heinz Neumann has a broad experience in the consultancy of regulatory authorities, governments and telecommunications companies. He acted as a member of many expert and advisory commissions, related to German telecommunication authorities.
Dr Neumann has led and is leading WIK-teams in more than 50 European regulatory policy consultancy studies. His main focus of work is related to cost modelling licensing, pricing policy, interconnection and ULL pricing, market structures and regulatory policy.
Since 1990 Dr Neumann is Member of the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society and since 1992 he is Member of the Research Committee of the Münchner Kreis – Supranational Association for Communications Research.
Since 2001 Dr Neumann is Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German NRA BNetzA.
From 1992 to 1995 Dr Neumann was the editor of Information Economics and Policy. Since 1999 he is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Info – The Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunications, Information and Media and since 2001 member of the Scientific Council of Communications and Strategies.
Dr Neumann has written more than 150 articles in journals, books and readers on telecommunications economics, policy and regulation. He was editor/coeditor of 7 books on telecommunications and postal policy topics and author of 4 books on telecommunications economics and policy. He has given more than 250 speeches or presentations on telecommunications policy and regulation, information and communications, postal policy.
Randolf Nijsse, Investment Director, Rabo Bouwfonds Dutch Communication Infrastructure Fund (CIF).
Randolf Nijsse is Investment Director at Rabo Bouwfonds Dutch Communication Infrastructure Fund (CIF). CIF is an investment fund for institutional investors and focusses on investments in passive communication infrastructure like towers, fixed infrastructure and housing facilities. Prior to joining CIF Mr. Nijsse worked for KPN where he was responsible for the Wholesale Access portfolio. From 2005 until 2007 Mr. Nijsse was responsible for KPN’s wholesale pricing and regulation strategy. Prior to that Mr. Nijsse has worked for Xantic satellite communications as manager corporate finance.
Andrew Parker, Telecoms Editor, Financial Times
Andrew Parker is the Financial Times Telecoms Editor, having previously worked as telecoms correspondent. Prior to that, he was a financial correspondent based in New York, and before that he was the UK financial correspondent, reporting on accounting and tax.
Mr Parker joined the FT in 1998 as a political correspondent. Before that, he worked for Time Out publications, the Chester Chronicle, Newcastle Journal and the Scotsman. He covered politics on all of these titles.
In 2000, Mr Parker won the business/financial story of the year at the Foreign Press Association awards for an investigation into how diamonds fuelled conflict in Africa. In 1994, he was named North East of England Journalist of the Year for his stories about a campaign to save the last shipyard in the region. Two years before that, his articles on young people and drugs were recognised at media awards organised by the UK Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence.
Mr Parker graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1989.
Marco Pierani, Head of Public Affairs, Altroconsumo
Marco Pierani is head of public affairs for Altroconsumo, the Italian consumers’ association.
Prior to joining Altroconsumo in 2002, he worked as a lawyer in the fields of internet law, e-commerce, and telecommunications. As a representative of consumer interests at parliamentary and governmental level he regularly takes part in hearings, conferences and TV and radio programmes.
Mr Pierani is a member of the working group on competition issues of the European Consumer Consultative Group, part of the European Commission's Directorate General for Health and Consumer Affairs. He is the author of numerous articles on the Internet, e-commerce, telecommunications and consumer protection.
Henry Piganeau, Managing Partner, Cube Infrastructure Fund
Henri Piganeau has 25 years of infrastructure project management and investment experience in concession projects. He joined Cube in August 2007.
Mr Piganeau was previously with Aéroports de Paris from 2005 to 2007 where he held the position of Deputy General Manager of Engineering & Architecture, managing a 5-year construction and development project of €2.7 bn.
Mr Piganeau joined ADP from SETEC, a leading French engineering consultant, where he worked for 2 years as CEO. During this time, SETEC was involved in numerous infrastructure concession projects (among others the prestigious Millau Bridge, the A41 Motorway, and the A86 tunnel).
From 1993 to 2003, Mr Piganeau developed and managed various concession projects in the Telecom industry for Vivendi, notably in Hungary, Morocco and Spain. In Budapest, he was responsible, as CEO, for three subsidiaries and 1,200 employees servicing more than 450,000 clients. In Madrid, he served for 3 years as deputy CEO of Xfera (today renamed Yoigo), the 4th Mobile Telecom Operator.
Prior to this, Mr Piganeau was with the Spie Batignolles Group, a French construction company, as General Manager of the industrial division, specialized in large industrial and infrastructure projects abroad where, among other things, he managed a significant spin-off that allowed the company to restructure.
Between 1986 and 1992, Mr Piganeau worked for the Ministry of Transportation and the County of Savoie for the preparation of the 1992 Winter Olympic games in Albertville. He was mainly responsible for the infrastructure program related to the Olympic venues and their access.
Mr Piganeau is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and of Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Corps) and has a M.Sc. from Berkeley, USA.
A French citizen, he is fluent in English, Spanish, German and has a reasonable command of Hungarian.
Lucilla Sioli, Head of Unit, Economic & Statistical Analysis, European Commission, DG Information Society
Ms Lucilla Sioli is the Head of the Economic and Statistical Analysis Unit in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General, a unit which monitors economic trends and performance in the area of ICT and is responsible for the benchmarking activities in the information society area.
She holds a PhD in economics from the
Caroline van Weede, Managing Director, Cable Europe
Caroline van Weede is the Managing Director of Cable Europe since December 2005.
Before joining Cable Europe, Caroline worked for the SFR Cegetel Group (France) where she initially dealt with European Affairs. During that period she chaired GSM Europe (2000 - 2001) and was later promoted to Head of the Business Intelligence Department.
Between 1994 and 1997 she was a member of the European Commission's "Improvement of the Business Environment" unit (DG XXIII responsible for Enterprise Policy). Prior to that she worked for UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) as an Industrial Affairs Adviser. She began her career at the Banque Paribas Belgium in 1988.
Caroline holds a Degree in Applied Economics from UCL in Belgium.
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Andreas Weiss, Managing Director and Head of TMT, WestLB AG
Born 1965 in Munich, Andreas holds a Master of Business and Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. Since 2007 he heads WestLB´s corporate TMT approach for the GSA-Region after having worked in the banks corporate finance team for the european telecoms and cable sector since the year 2000. Before that he worked in Brazil in the software and banking sector.
Anthony Whelan, Head of Cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner for Digital Agenda
Date of birth: 11 June 1968
Nationality: Irish
Secondary education: Cistercian College, Roscrea, Ireland (1980-1985)
Further education
Law:
- Trinity College, Dublin, LL.B. (1989)
- Cambridge University, LL.M. (1990)
- King's Inns, Dublin, Barrister (1992)
Career:
- Lecturer in Public Law, Trinity College Dublin (1991-1995)
- Court of Justice of the European Communities, Luxembourg (1995-2000)
- European Commission, Legal Service (2000-2006)
- Member of Cabinet, Commissioner Neelie Kroes (2006-2008)
- Head of Cabinet, Commissioner Neelie Kroes (Competition to Feb 2010; Digital Agenda thereafter) (2008- )
Languages: English (mother tongue), French, Italian, German, some Dutch, some Spanish
Sean Williams, Group Director of Strategy, Policy & Portfolio for BT Group
Sean is Group Director of Strategy, Policy & Portfolio for BT Group. He joined BT in September 2008.
Before BT, Sean was Executive Director on the Board at the Office of Fair Trading from 2007-2008, responsible for competition law and consumer law enforcement in the UK, including merger control and anti-cartel investigations. Previously he was Executive Director on the Board of Ofcom from 2003 to 2007, responsible for economic regulation and competition policy in telecoms and broadcasting in the UK. He led Ofcom’s work on broadband and LLU, the Telecoms Strategic Review and the new regulatory settlement under BT’s Undertakings.
Before Ofcom Sean was a Partner of LEK Consulting LLP, an international strategy consulting firm originating in the UK, from 1997 to 2003. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Policy Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street. From 1990 to 2008 he was a Board Director of Williams Lea Group, a private business services company employing about 10,000 people worldwide.
Sean has degrees in economics from Oxford and Harvard Universities.
Brian Williamson, Director, Plum Consulting
Brian Williamson is a Director of Plum Consulting focusing on regulatory policy and strategy in the areas of communications, media, radio spectrum and the internet. His focus is the transformation of the economy and society via the effective use of ICT, and the strategy, policy and regulatory challenges of convergence. Brian sees innovative thinking as essential in meeting these challenges, and has contributed to the development and application of ideas including "equivalence", radio spectrum administrative incentive pricing (AIP) and "anchor product" regulation. In relation to the copper fibre transition Brian has advised regulators and operators on the appropriate policy approach and the role of fixed and mobile as both substitutes and complements. Most recently he has worked on the question of whether and how to apply cost orientation to fibre and the relationship between regulation of copper and incentives to invest in fibre. Brian has a BSc in Physics and an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.
