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Conference 2026 - Confirmed Speakers

CRESSE CONFERENCE 2026 on "Advances in the Analysis of Competition Policy and Regulation"

Confirmed Speakers:

Reiko Aoki (Special Advisor at Japan Fair Trade Commission)

Heski Bar-Isaac (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)

Matthew Bennett (Vice President, Charles River Associates)

Kai Brauneisen (Judicial Clerk, Federal Constitutional Court, Germany)

David P. Byrne (University of Melbourne)

Camila Cabral Pires Alves (Commissioner, CADE, Brazil, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

Giacomo Calzolari (European University Institute)

Susana Campuzano Fernández (Director-General, Competition Directorate, CNMC)

Yongmin Chen (University of Colorado Boulder)

Robert Clark (Queen’s University)

Jacques Crémer (Toulouse School of Economics)

John Davies (Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, UK)

Jet Zhisong Deng (Senior partner, Dacheng)

Benoît Durand (RBB Economics)

Tomaso Duso (Head of the Firms and Markets Department at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin))

Jan Eeckhout (Barcelona School of Economics)

Ariel Ezrachi (University of Oxford)

Guilio Federico (Partner, OXERA)   

Cani Fernández (President of the National Commission for Markets and Competition, Spain)  

Dave Foster (Executive Director, Frontier Economics)

Eleanor Fox (New York University School of Law)

Hans Friederszick (Director and founder of E.CA Economics)

Chiara Fumagalli (Bocconi University)

Michal S. Gal (Haifa University)

Antonio Gomes (Deputy Director, OECD Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs)

Joe Harrington (University of Pennsylvania)

Deborah Healey (Director, China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Centre UNSW Law and Justice, Australia)

James Hodge (Commissioner, Competition Commission of South Africa)

Herbert Hovenkamp (Univ. of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and the Wharton School)

Daisuke Ikezawa (Director, Office of Policy Planning and Research for Digital Markets, Economic Affairs Bureau, JFTC)

Elisabetta Iossa (Commissioner, Italian Antitrust Authority, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Frederic Jenny (Emeritus professor of economics ESSEC Business School, Fernand Braudel Fellow European University Institute (Florence))

Ginger Zhe Jin (University of Maryland)   

Bruno Jullien (Toulouse School of Economics)

Krisztian Katona ((Vice President of Global Competition and Regulatory Policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA))

Yannis Katsoulacos (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Ioannis Kokkoris (Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University, Member, UK Competition Appeal Tribunal)

Assimakis Komninos (White & Case)

William Kovacic (The George Washington University Law School, former Federal Trade Commission Chairman)

Christopher Leslie (UC Irvine School of Law)

Philip Marsden (College of Europe, Bruges)

Massimo Motta (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona School of Economics)

Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)

Dan O’ Brien (Econic Partners)

Despina Pachnou (Senior competition expert, OECD)

Jorge Padilla (Chair Compass Lexecon International)

Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim)

Augustine Peter (APRLP Law, former Member of the Competition Commission of India)

Michelle Polo (Bocconi University)

Pierre Régibeau (Analysis Group, former Chief Economist DG COMP)

Patrick Rey (Toulouse School of Economics)

Ana Sofia Rodrigues (Member of the Board of the Portuguese Competition Authority)

Nancy Rose (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Economics Department)

Thomas Ross (UBC Sauder School of Business)

Kerem Cem Sanli (Dean, Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law Director – Competition Law and Policy Research Center Santralkampus)

Maarten Pieter Schinkel (University of Amsterdam)

Till Schreiber (CDC Cartel Damage Claims Consulting SRL)

Howard Shelanski (Georgetown University, formerly Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. FTC and Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs)

Lars Sørgard (Norwegian School of Economics)

Frode Steen (Norwegian School of Economics and CEPR)

Emanuele Tarantino (Chief Competition Economist at DG COMP)

Jean Tirole (Toulouse School of Economics, 2014 Nobel Laureate in Economics)

Helder Vasconcelos (RBB Economics)

Thibaud Vergé (Vice-President, Autorité de la Concurrence)

Frank Verboven (KU Leuven)

Keith Waehrer (Managing Director, Secretariat)

Anne Witt (EDHEC Business School, Augmented Law Institute)

Julian Wright (National University of Singapore)

Roger Zhang (Tencent)

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