Advisory Board – European Network on Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificiell Intelligence

Jörgen Hettne

Alexis Sjövall — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:01:51 +0000

Jörgen Hettne (born 1966) holds an LL.D. and formerly served as Professor of Business Law at the Department of Business Law, Lund University, and as Director of the Centre for European Studies (CFE) at Lund University. He specializes in EU law and has authored several books and numerous articles in the field. His previous roles also include service at the General Court of the European Union in Luxembourg and as researcher and Director at the Swedish Institute for European Policy Studies (SIEPS). He now serves as a Judge at the General Court of the European Union.

Helena Holmström Olsson

Alexis Sjövall — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:24:53 +0000

Helena Holmström Olsson is a Professor in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science and Media Technology at Malmö University, Sweden. She is a senior researcher and theme leader in Software Center (https://www.software-center.se) and in Continuous Digitalization (CoDig) Competence Center where the focus is to is to significantly improve the digitalization capability of the European software-intensive systems industry. She received her Ph.D. in Informatics from University of Gothenburg in 2004 and did her Post doc in LERO (‘The Irish Software Research Center’) at University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research interests and expertise include engineering aspects of AI systems, data-driven development practices, digitalization and digital transformation, and software and business ecosystems. She is the supervisor of several PhD students in the area of data-driven development and AI engineering, focusing in particular on the business and organizational implications of AI deployment, and she has a well-established collaboration with the European software-intensive embedded systems industry.

Her research is published in high-quality software engineering journals and she is a board member of the International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA).

Timo Minssen

Alexis Sjövall — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:21:02 +0000

Timo Minssen is Professor of Law at the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and the Founding Director of UCPH’s Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL). He is also an LML Research Affiliate at the University of Cambridge (UK), and an Inter-CeBIL Research Affiliate, Petrie-Flom Centre for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School (US). His research, supervision, teaching & part-time advisory practice concentrates on Intellectual Property-, Competition & Regulatory Law, as well as on the law & ethics of emerging health & life science technologies, such as genome editing, big data, artificial intelligence and quantum technology. This involves a plethora of legal issues emerging during the lifecycle of relevant products and processes – from the sustainable regulation of R&D and incentives for innovation to responsible technology transfer and commercialization. Based on both his academic and practical experience from law firms, courts & life science start-ups, Timo serves as a member of several international committees and as an advisor to the WHO, WIPO, EU Commission, various organizations, companies, national governments and law firms.

He presents his research at international symposia, major law firms, the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Hong Kong & Tokyo, Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, Stanford Law School, Yale, MIT, the Broad institute, as well as at the WHO, WIPO, European Medicines Agency and National Ehics Councils etc. His publications comprise 7 books, as well as 200+ articles and book chapters. Timo’s research has been featured in i.a. The Economist, The Financial Times, El Mundo, Politico, WHO Bulletin, Times of India & Times Higher Education, and published in leading journals, such as Science, JAMA, NEJM Catalyst, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Manager, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Genetics, Nature Electronics, Nature PJ Digital Medicine, The Lancet Digital Health, PLoS-Computational Biology, Biotech. J., Drug Discovery, JLB, BLR, Person.Med., IIC, EIPR, ECLR, JIPLP, GRUR Int., Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop., IPQ, QMJIP, NIR & EUConst.LR. He is also a regular contributor on Harvard Law School’s “Bill of Health” blog.

Emilia Mišćenić

Alexis Sjövall — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:33:48 +0000

Emilia Mišćenić, Dr. iur. (KFU Graz), LL.M. (Saarland) is a full professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. For her academic work in the field of European private law and consumer protection, she has been awarded by the Croatian National Science Award, the Award of the University of Rijeka Foundation, the Award of the Republic of Croatia Ivan Filipović and many others. Her work has contributed to AG’s legal opinions in cases such as Pereničová and Perenič, Meta Platforms Ireland and UFC, Que choisir and CLCV AG. She is a co- chair of the award-winning European Law Institute Croatian Hub, and a head of the University of Rijeka project “Transparency and Fairness in the Digital Environment” (uniri-iskusni-drustv-23-101).

Mona Lilja

Alexis Sjövall — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:20:40 +0000

Mona Lilja currently serves as a Professor of Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and also acts as Head of department at Institute of Global Political Studies at Malmö University.

Lilja’s areas of interest are the linkages between resistance and social change, as well as the particularities – the character and emergence – of various forms of resistance. She is the author of the recently published book Constructive Resistance: Repetitions, Emotions, and Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).

Ioannis Lianos

FIDMA — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:54:35 +0000

Ioannis Lianos is Professor, Chair of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal since 2024. He was President of the Hellenic Competition Commission from August 2019 to January 2024. Ioannis was elected a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee in 2021 and re-elected in 2022 and 2023. He was also a member of the EU High Level Group for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and he was part of the Greek delegation during the negotiations for the adoption of the DMA. He was also the Chairman of the Special Law Commission that was in charge of the preparation of the New Competition Law Bill in Greece, which led to a significant reform of competition legislation in January 2022 (Law 4886/2022 which included important legislative innovations). Lianos’s work influenced different legislative reforms worldwide and his ‘polycentric competition law model’ is recognised as an alternative approach to the ‘consumer welfare aprpoach’ in competition law. His work on ecosystems and complexity competition law as well as his advocacy for integrating sustainability concerns in competition law had an international impact and is frequently cited as a source of inspiration in legislative reforms, case law and decisional practice of competition authorities.

Lianos is the founding director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) at UCL Laws and served as the executive director of the Jevons Institute of Competition Law & Economics at UCL. He is also a fellow of the European Institute at UCL. He teaches the EU Competition Law course at the College of Europe in Natolin. He was previously the Vincent Wright chair at Sciences Po Paris between 2018-2019 as well as the Chief Researcher of the Skolkovo Laboratory on Law and Development, National Research University, Higher School of Economics and academic head of the BRICS Competition Law Project (2014-2019). He has also held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the WZB (Social Science Research centre) in Berlin from 2014-2016. Between 2012 to 2014 he was the Gutenberg Research Chair at France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He is a visiting professor in competition and intellectual property law at the Universities of Chile in Santiago, the University of Strasbourg and was a fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Law & Economics and an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Jean Monnet Centre as well as a fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in 2014. Professor Lianos has been a Non-Governmental Advisor at the International Competition Network since 2009, a research partner to UNCTAD in competition law and policy since 2010, and was an elected member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute between 2010 and 2020. He was the co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2017-2024) and of the Yearbook of European Law (2015-2019), both published by OUP. He was the co-editor of the GLOBAL COMPETITION LAW & ECONOMICS series with Stanford University press and since 2018 he is the general editor of the book series Global Competition Law & Economic Policy with Cambridge University press. He sits at the Advisory Board of many law journals (including Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Journal of Competition Law and Practice, World Competition etc.). Between 2014 and 2019 he was a member of the review college of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has advised a number of governments and companies on competition law, IP matters as well as better regulation (impact assessment, CBA).

Luca Arnaudo

FIDMA — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 07:30:11 +0000

Luca Arnaudo is a full-time civil servant at the Italian Competition Authority, specializing in competition and regulation. He also consults for international institutions, governments, and NGOs, and serves as a part-time/visiting professor at several universities. He is currently a distinguished lecturer at Syracuse University College of Law (NY, USA) and an adjunct professor at LUISS University’s Department of Business and Management (Rome, Italy). His courses primarily focus on Antitrust, Market Regulation, Pharma-Biotech Law, and Comparative Legal Systems. Luca is regularly invited to speak at prominent institutional and academic venues, including the WHO, WIPO, Harvard University, and the Indian Law Institute.

Luca has authored three academic books and approximately 60 scholarly articles and book chapters on a variety of legal and economic topics. He was co-awarded the 2023 Antitrust Writing Award and consistently ranks in the top 10% of authors on platforms like SSRN and Academia.edu for all-time downloads of his work.

Beyond his professional expertise in law and regulation, Luca is also a writer, publisher, art critic-curator, and expert numismatist.

Fabiana di Porto

FIDMA — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:30:24 +0000

Fabiana di Porto is the Assistant Professor of Economic Law and Technology at the University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza and Adjunct Professor of Law and Policy of Regulation at the Luiss University, Rome.

RESEARCH INTERESTS: regulation, law and technology. Computational methods in law and regulation. That applies to:

Emerging and disruptive technologies (AI, generative AII, Fintech)
Computational analysis of law and regulation
Information Disclosure
Competition law, regulated markets, consumer law
Better Regulation and Consultation process through AI
Virtual worlds, Metaverse and NFTs

ROLES

(2011-) Co-Editor in Chief, peer-reviewed A-rated Italian law journal “Concorrenza e mercato“ (Competition and the market. Antitrust, Regulation, Consumer Welfare, IP; Giuffrè-Lefebvre pub.)

(2023-) Director, Best Junior Papers Award, Academic Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA)

(2021) member of scientific committees of: Univ. Pisa PhD program in law; Global Pandemic Network, Osservatorio AIR (Regulatory Impact Assessment), Law, Ethics and Technology journal.

RESEARCH GRANTS

(2024-26) HORIZON grant (€3.000k, EU Commission) “AI4POL-Using AI to support regulators and policy makers”, Head of unit

(2023-25) PRIN-PNRR grant (€275k, Ital. Min. Univ), PI, “MetaJust. Metaverse Justice: Legal and Practical implications for justice in the Metaverse”

(2023-24) Innovation Grant (€47k, Next Gen EU), Head of unit, “Federated Learning for finance” (fraud and money laundry detection)

(2019-23) PRIN grant (70k Ital. Min. Univ.), Head of unit, “Algorithmic disclosure rules”

(2016-17) 1-year grant (40K, ARERA-Ital. Energy regulator), National coordinator, “Using behavioral insights to enhance energy regulation”

SEMINARS/CONSULTANCY/AUDIT

(2022) Initiator (with prof. D. Bosco) of The Italo-French Colloquium on Digital Sovereignty. Inaugural seminar: “Regulate the Metaverse?”

(2022) Law&Reg Tech Seminar II ed. (LUISS Uni.) “NFTs and Metaverse versus Law”

(2021) Law&Reg Tech Seminar I ed (LUISS Uni.) “Computational law: Theory and Applications”

Audited as national expert before the European Parliament on Dark Patterns (2022) and the Italian Senate on the Metaverse (2023)

(2024) Speaker on “Virtual worlds and competition law”, EU Commission workshop Competition in Virtual Worlds and Generative AI

(2023-24) Consultant for CERRE, Brussels on “Emerging Virtual Worlds: Implications for Policy and Regulation”

PUBLICATIONS: Over 80 articles (appeared, inter alia, in Stanford Computational Antitrust; Artificial Intelligence and Law; Concurrences; the Journal of Regulation and Technology); 4 monographs, 5 edited collections and several op-eds.

Björn Lundqvist

FIDMA — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:29:18 +0000

Björn Lundqvist is Professor of European Law with a focus on Competition Law and Head of EU Law at Stockholm University; previously Associate Professor, Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) 2012-2016. He has published numerous works on the matter of Intellectual property, competition law and digital markets, as well as two monographs, ‘R&D collaborations under the Competition Rules of the European Union and The Antitrust Laws of the United States’ and ‘Standardization under EU Competition Rules & US Antitrust Laws: The Rise and Limits of Self-Regulation”.

Kalpana Tyagi

FIDMA — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 19:26:45 +0000

Kalpana Tyagi is Assistant Professor of Intellectual Property and Competition Law in the European and International Law Department, Maastricht University. She pursued her LLM, with majors in International and minors in Chinese business laws across Singapore and Shanghai. In the UK, she worked on dispute resolution and third party funding with Vannin Capital in London. She has also worked as a research policy analyst at International Telecommunications Union, Geneva. Thereafter, she worked at the University of Århus, Denmark, where she developed the Center for Ret & Digitalisering (CREDI), the Department of Digitalization with focus on emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and the Blockchain technology. Her main areas of interest relate to the interface of intellectual property rights and competition law, particularly in the context of digitalization.