Carlota Reyners Fontana

Deputy Head of the Radio Spectrum Policy unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Carlota Reyners Fontana is Deputy Head of the Radio Spectrum Policy unit in DG Connect at the European Commission. She is also leading one of the DG Connect task teams in charge of the Review of the Telecoms framework, regarding access regulation, spectrum and universal service. Between April 2012 and November 2014, she was Member of cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner responsible for Digital Agenda under the Barroso II Commission, mainly dealing with issues related to the Telecoms Regulatory framework, including the proposal for a Connected continent, spectrum, roaming, national market regulation and broadband policies. She joined the Commission in 2000 in the Competition Directorate General where she dealt with antitrust and cartel investigations in several sectors until 2006. During a leave from the Commission, she worked for about four years as an in-house competition lawyer of a leading European telecommunications company. Before joining the Commission, she was a lawyer in the EU Competition team of a Brussels based law firm. She holds a law degree from Madrid University and a Master in European law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.