Cristiano ANTONELLI (1951) holds the chair of Political Economy of the University of Torino. He is the director of the Department of Economics Cognetti de Martiis, Dean of the Master Program in Communication and Society and president of ICER (International Center for Economic research). He is the managing editor of Economics of Innovation and New Technology (since 1996) and a member of the board of editors of Information Economics and Policy (associate editor in the years 1995-2004), Mind & Society, COMMUNICATION & STRATEGIES. He is a member the Board of Trustees of the Fondazione CRT (since 2001) and an Advisor to the Ufficio Studi of the Bank of Italy (since 2002). He has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Sloan School of Managament of MIT (1983-1986), a junior economist at the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry of the OECD (1978-1979), visiting professor at the Universities of Manchester, Lyon Lumiere, Paris VIII, X, XII, Aix-Marseille. Rio de Janeiro.
Robert ATKINSON is Director of Policy Research at CITI. Before joining CITI in 2000, he was the Deputy Chief of the FCC’s Common Carrier Bureau where he was responsible for the substance of many major FCC decisions. He is currently a member of the New York Telecommunications Reliability Advisory Council (NYTRAC). From 2001-2006, Robert Atkinson served as Chairman of the North American Numbering Council (NANC), which advises the FCC on matters affecting the availability and utilization of telephone number resources in the US. In 1998 Mr. Atkinson was Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer of AT&T local services until he joined FCC in 1999. Robert Atkinson has a law degree and a Bachelor of Art degree in Government and Foreign Affairs. He is presently admitted to the bar in New Jersey.
Edmond BARANES is Professor of Economic Sciences at the University of Montpellier and IDATE's Scientific Consultant. He is the Editor for the COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES journal and represents IDATE within academic networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Sciences and a Master of Economics (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1991). He received a Post graduate diploma (DEA) in Mathematical Economy and Econometrics (1991) and a Master of Econometrics I (1990) from University of Paris.
edmond.baranes@univ-montp1.fr
Professor of Economics at the Université Panthéon-Assas, after having been the Director of the Economics Department of the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications (ENST), Laurent BENZONI is an associate founder of TERA Consultants and the Scientific Director of the World Observatory of Communication Systems (OMSYC). A member of the Editorial Committee for the COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES journal, Mr. Benzoni has conducted a great many expert missions and consulting assignments on behalf of national and international public organisations (OECD, ART, EEC, …) and of French and foreign private and public enterprises.
Jacques BUGHIN is a Director (Senior Partner) with McKinsey & Company from the Benelux Office. He is the co-leader of McKinsey European Media Practice and a core leader of Telecom and Marketing Practices, serving leading global media companies. He is also a core member of the McKinsey's Technology Initiative, and co-leads the McKinsey Initiative on digital marketing, looking at the impact of digital technologies on marekting best practices. Dr Bughin has published widely including recent books, such as Managing media companies- harnessing creativity, with Annet ARIS, (Wiley 2005). His research has been reported in various forums, e.g., the McKinsey Quarterly, this Review, or academic journals such as Management Science, The European Economic Review, or Electronic Markets. He is a frequent speaker at conferences like the MIDEM, MIPCOM, ECCA, NAB and is also an academic fellow at both the Aspen Institute in the US and the ECORE, a think tank in economics and management in Belgium. He is also part of the Media advisory Board for Insead in France.
Martin CAVE is a professor at Warwick Business School, UK. He is a regulatory economist, specialising in the communications industry and co-editor of The Handbook of Telecommunications Economics (2002, 2005) and of Digital Broadcasting (2006). He advises a number of regulatory bodies in Europe and worldwide.
martin.cave@wbs.ac.uk
Jacques CHAMPEAUX is Executive Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, of France Telecom. He held senior management positions in several of France Telecom's subsidiaries from 1983 to 1995. He joined France Telecom in 1971 and until 1983, worked at the CNET, the predecessor entity to France Telecom Research and Development, where he was successively in charge of research for electronic switching and then in charge of the networks and services division. Mr. Champeaux is a graduate of the Ecole polytechnique and the Ecole nationale supérieure des telecommunications.
Helmuth CREMER is professor of economics at the University of Toulouse and is a member of Institut universitaire de France. He is also research director at IDEI. His areas of research include public economics and, specifically, the design of taxation and social protection systems. He has also extensively worked and published on issues of pricing, competition and public service in network industries, particularly in the postal and gas sectors.
Jacques CREMER received his PhD from MIT in 1978. He has held appointments at the University of Pennsylvania and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Since 1991, he has been Director of Research for CNRS, working at the University of Toulouse. From January 2003 to July 2007, he was Director of the Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEI). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and an ex-member of the Council of the Econometric Society and a member of the Council of the European Economic Association. His current research interests are the economics of organization, the economics of the Internet and of the software industry, contract theory and the political economy of federal systems. In each of these areas, he tries to undertake relevant economic theory.
Philippe DE DONDER obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Namur in 1998. He has been working at the University of Toulouse (GREMAQ and IDEI) since then, first as Assistant Professor and then as Research Fellow responsible for research for CNRS. He has been Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester (NY, 2000-2001) and is currently visiting Yale University (2007-2008). His main research interests are political economy, public economics and the regulation of network industries.
Mario DENNI is research associate at Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat) and Italian National Research Council (CNR). He is specialised in the quantitative analysis of diffusion and economic impact of information and communication technologies. He has a PhD in statistical methods for economics and a Master of Arts (MA) in Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Beglium). His previous experience includes consultancy at the European Investment Bank, carrying out econometric analyses of the prospects for telecom investment in developing countries and price relationship between crude and oil products.
denni@uniroma3.it
Chris DOYLE is an Associate of Warwick Business School. He is an economist specialising in competition policy and regulation and the co-author, with Martin CAVE and William WEBB, of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (2007).
Martin FRANSMAN is professor of economics and founder-director of the Institute for Japanese-European Technology Studies at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. His recent books include Global Broadband Battles: Why the US and Europe Lag while Asia Leads (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Telecoms in the Internet Age: From Boom to Bust to… ? (Oxford University Press, 2002). His forthcoming book is The New ICT Ecosystem: Implications for Europe.
Jean GABSZEWICZ was born in Buta (Zaïre). He is an Emeritus professor at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, France. He received a doctorate in law in 1961 then another in economic science in 1968 at the above university. He specializes in economic theory and has published several papers on this subject. He was awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1979, Doctor Honoris Causa, Université d’Aix-en-Provence in 2003 and Fellow of the European Economic Association in 2004. His other scientific activities include being a member of the Scientific Council of CEPREMAP (Paris); member of the recruitment committee in Economics of Ecole Polytechnique, Paris; member of the Committee of Experts “Training and Mobility of Researchers”, European Commission, 1995-1998; Secretary of the Programme Committee of the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics jointly managed by Bonn university, the London School of Economics and Université Catholique de Louvain, 1977-1981; Research Director, CORE, 1977-1980; President, CORE, 1983-1992; member of the Council of the European Economic Association, 1986-1990; member of the Research Council, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1987-1993; Associate Editor of Journal of Economic Theory, 1976-1981, Journal of Economics, 1989, and Richerche Economiche, 1991-1997; and Guest Editor of the European Economic Review.
For more than fifteen years, Yves GASSOT has been at the head of IDATE (www.idate.org), an institute that has established itself as one of the leading research centres in Europe concerned with the telecommunications, Internet and media industries. In this position, he has taken part in numerous studies of the various markets and the strategies being pursued in the telecommunications sector. He is on the panel of several expert committees, including the Conseil Général des Technologies de l'Information , ITS and the advisory Committees of the PTC and Iris Capital. He was special adviser of the European Commissioner of the Information Society during the last regulatory framewoprk review. He serves as director of the journal COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES and is scientific head of the annual DigiWorld Yearbook and DigiWorld Summit. With a background as DPLG architect, he is a graduate of the Institute of Political Studies, Paris (3rd Cycle).
y.gassot@idate.org
Harald GRUBER is head of the ICT and e-Economy division at the Projects Directorate of the European Investment Bank based in Luxembourg. He oversees project appraisal and has contributed to the Bank’s strategy papers on the telecommunications sector. He has also recently published a book, The Economics of Mobile Telecommunications, at Cambridge University Press. He has co-authored articles in particular on the mobile telecommunications sector in scholarly journals such as European Economic Review, Telecommunications Policy, Information Economics and Policy and International Journal of Industrial Organisation. Previously he has researched the semiconductor industry, publishing several articles and a book entitled Learning and Strategic Product Innovation. Theory and Evidence for the Semiconductor Industry (North Holland). Harald Gruber holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics.
Natali HELBERGER is senior researcher at the Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam.
Since February 2007, Mr Vianney HENNES has been the Permanent Representative of the France Telecom Orange group to the european institutions. Before, he was in charge of European and International Regulation at France Telecom. Previously Vianney held various management positions within France Telecom, mainly in the areas of corporate strategy and business development, in France and in several other European countries. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (1982) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (1984).
Stephen HOWARD is Co-Head of the HSBC Telecoms, Media and Technology team, which focuses in particular on the global telecoms, broadcast media and telecom vendor areas. Within this, his primary focus is upon the European fixed-line and mobile markets. The HSBC TMT team produces non-consensual, thematic research examining key industry themes. Recent reports tackle topics such as network separation, net neutrality, convergence in both corporate and residential markets, next generation access network upgrades and the many implications of the proliferation of multiple SIMs in mobile markets. This work has been widely recognised - most recently with the team attaining the number 1 telecoms rating in the prestigious Extel investor survey. Prior to joining HSBC, he worked with IBM on a range of software projects. He holds a BA and D.Phil from Lincoln College, Oxford.
A telecommunications engineer, Richard LALANDE began his career in the public service where he occupied a number of positions over 10 years: at the Directorate-General of Telecommunications (Direction Générale des Télécommunications), the General Secretariat of the Inter-ministerial Committee for European Economic Affairs (Secrétariat Général du Comité Interministériel pour les Affaires Economiques Européennes, SGCI) and at the French Ministry of Industry. In 1983, he entered the telecommunications industry (CGCT). In 1987, Mr. Lalande joined the Compagnie Générale des Eaux (now Vivendi) where he devoted himself to the creation of SFR (Société Française du Radiotéléphone) before becoming its Director General. In September 1995, he was put in charge of the development of fixed telecom infrastructure, and took part in the creation of operator CEGETEL. Mr. Lalande is currently the Deputy Director General of mobile operator, SFR. He has been the Chairman of AFORS Télécom (French Association of Telecommunications Network and Service Operator) since May 2004 and the Vice-Chairman of ECTA (European Competitive Telecommunications Association) since January 2007.
Gilles LE BLANC is professor of economics at the Ecole des Mines de Paris and director of CERNA, research center in industrial economics. His main research interests are the analysis of industrial and regulatory dynamics and the empirical implementation of market structure's theories. Recent work focuses on digital content economics, European industrial policy and the economic geography of R&D in global firms. He is co-author of When Internet meets Entertainment (Presses de l'Ecole des Mines, 2006), an essay on digital media industries. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Ecole des Mines. In 1999-2001, he was visiting researcher at the London School of Economics.
Marc LEBOURGES graduated from the Ecole Nationale Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications and holds a PhD in Computer Science from University of Paris VI. First involved in Operation Research and Traffic Engineering at France Télécom Research Center, now Orange Labs, he moved to the Economics and Strategic Department of France Telecom HeadQuarters were he contributed to interconnexion pricing, universal service obligations costing, Internet strategy and network strategic planning. After some years as a marketing director for domestic wholesale products, he is now in charge of European and Economic Regulation for France Télécom Group Regulatory Affairs.
Winston MAXWELL is a partner of Hogan & Hartson, based in the firm's Paris office. Winston has over 20 years of corporate, regulatory and commercial law experience in France, with an emphasis on communications, Internet and media. He advised clients in connection with the first European telecommunications liberalization initiatives in the mid 1990's, and continues to advise alternative operators, regulators, Web 2.0 platforms and media groups on regulatory and transactional matters in Europe. He authored a major treatise on European communications (Electronic Communications, the New EU Framework, Oxford University Press), and lectures on Internet law at the Paris University (Dauphine). He is an "avocat" with the Paris bar, and an attorney with the New York bar. Winston received his law degree from Cornell Law School in 1985.
Pedro MENDONÇA is a Director (Senior Partner) at McKinsey & Company, from the Iberian Office. Within McKinsey, he leads the Marketing Group of the European Telecom Practice and is a core member of the European Media Practice leadership group. Pedro has worked worldwide with leading Telecom and Media institutions on topics such as pricing, product design and branding topics. He has also published several articles on marketing related topics in McKinsey Quarterly and Recall magazine. Dr. Mendonça holds an MBA from the Catholic University of Lisbon and, for several years, was a Marketing and Marketing Research teacher at the Technical University of Lisbon.
Jean-Gustave PADIOLEAU is associate professor at University Paris-Dauphine and senior researcher at GEMAS-Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). He has written several academic books and articles and regularly contributes to newspapers and reviews such as Les Echos, Libération and Le Débat. He is also a member of COMMUNICATIONS & STRATEGIES Scientific Committee.
David L. SIERADZKI is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson LLP, with a practice focusing on telecommunications public policy and competition. He represents wireless, wireline, satellite, and Internet-based service providers on matters involving broadband deregulation, interconnection, network access, and universal service payments. He is an experienced advocate before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Congress, and federal and state agencies, and has structured and obtained regulatory approval of major domestic and international corporate transactions. Before joining Hogan & Hartson in 1996, David served at the FCC, where he spearheaded the agency's implementation of the local competition provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He earned his J.D. at Yale Law School in 1989, a Masters of Public Policy degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1988, and a B.A. in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984.
Nick WHITE has been a Vice Chairman of the International Telecommunications Users Group (INTUG) since 1994, and is a Board member of the UK User Group (CMA), of which he was Chairman from 1990 to 1993. Nick has spent most of his career in telecommunications. Since retiring from Unilever in 2006, he has worked as an independent consultant. He has been lobbying for the interests of telecommunications users for 25 years. He joined Unilever in March 1991 starting as head of worldwide telecommunications, he also managed IT Strategy, Ecommerce, and Information Management. Prior to Unilever, Nick was Group Telecommunications Manager Midland Bank (HSBC), providing value added network services commercially through a subsidiary company, Midland Network Services, of which he was Chairman. Before Midland, Nick was Deputy Technical Controller for Reuters.
Matthew WOOD is an associate in the Communications Practice Group of Hogan & Hartson's Washington, D.C. office. His practice focuses on media and telecommunications matters, with an emphasis on federal and state regulatory issues. He represents clients in agency proceedings and private negotiations involving multichannel video programming distribution technology and retransmission, rights of way usage, wireline competition, spectrum policy, and state and local franchising matters.
Skerdilajda ZANAJ was born in Bajram Curri (Albania). She is currently close to completing her PhD at CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain and Universita di Siena, Italy. She has also been a Marie Curie fellow at CORE since September 2005. She graduated with summa cum lode at the Universtiy of Lecce, Italy and passed her Masters at the University of Sienna with distinction. Skerdilajda Zanaj has published the following papers: “Upstream market foreclosure” (with J. GABSZEWICZ), forthcoming in The Bulletin of Economic Research; “Market Games and successive oligopolies” (with J. GABSZEWICZ, Didier LAUSSEL & Tanguy van YPERSELE), CORE DP 2007/10; “Enviromental innovation under Cournot competition” (with Maria SANIN), CORE DP 2007/50. |
