Programme and Speakers

18 October (Thursday)

Registration (08:30)
Opening Session (09:30)

Keynote (10:00)
José Luís Cruz Vilaça, Judge, European Court of Justice

The role of competition policy in today's world(10:30)

Frédéric Jenny, Chairman, OECD Competition Committee
Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law, New York University (NYU)
Johannes Laitenberger, Director-General, DG Competition, European Commission
Maria João Melícias, Member of the Board, Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC)

Coffee break (11:45)

Innovation in Merger Control (12:00)

Jacques Steenbergen, President, Belgian Competition Authority
Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe
Howard Shelanski, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
Tommaso Valletti, Chief Economist, DG Competition, European Commission

Lunch (13:15)

The impact of digitalization on competition policy and practice (14h45)

Konrad Ost, Vice-President, Bundeskartellamt
António Gomes, Acting Deputy Director, OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs
Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law, Oxford University
Cristina Caffarra, Vice-President, Charles River Associates
Isabelle de Silva, President, Autorité de la Concurrence

Coffee break (16:00)

Vertical mergers in media markets (16:30)

Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Chief Economist, Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC)
Giulio Federico, Head of Unit, Chief Economist Team, DG Competition, European Commission
Nancy Rose, Head of the Department of Economics and Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Serge Moresi, Vice-President, Charles River Associates

Keynote (17:45)
Richard Gilbert, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of California at Berkeley

19 October (Friday)

Financial Services – Competition, Innovation and Stability in Banking (09:00)

Andrea Gomes da Silva, Executive Director, Markets and Mergers, UK Competition and Markets Authority
Miguel de la Mano, Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon Brussels Office
Maria Ortíz, Commissioner, Comisión Nacional de Mercados y Competencia (CNMC)
Nuno Rocha de Carvalho, Member of the Board, Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC)

Coffee break (10:15)

Excessive pricing (10:45)

Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe
Massimo Motta, Professor of Economics, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics
Nils Wahl, Advocate-General, European Court of Justice
Peter Freeman CBE QC (Hon), Chairman, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal
 
AdC Competition Policy Award Ceremony (12:00)
Margarida Matos Rosa, President of the AdC Competition Policy Award Jury
Massimo Motta, Member of the AdC Competition Policy Jury
AdC Competition Policy Award Winner

Closing session (12:30)
 
Meeting of the Lusophone Competition Network (15:30)