Mr. David Martín, Partner, Monitor Deloitte. Member of the European Centre of Regulatory Strategy (London) and the Banking Union Centre (Frankfurt). Before his career in consulting, he worked for some of the main authorities in the financial services industry, like the European Commission (DG Competition), the European Central Bank, and the Bank of Spain.

Biography

Manuel Mueller-Frank is a Professor in the Department of Economics. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics at Northwestern University, and holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn.

Prof. Mueller-Frank teaches global economics, managerial economics and cryptocurrency courses in the MiM, MBA, Executive MBA and other executive education programs.

Prof. Mueller-Frank’s research lies at the intersection between economic theory and mathematics. His areas of specialization include game theory, the economics of information and learning dynamics.

Prof. Mueller-Frank’s research is published in leading academic journals such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Theoretical Economics, Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research and American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.

Mr. Alberto Bacchiega

Enrique Andreu is an Executive Vice President in Compass Lexecon’s European competition policy practice, Head of Brussels Office and EMEA Head of People, based in Madrid and Brussels.

Enrique specializes in the application of economic and econometric analysis techniques to the study of antitrust and competition policy issues, including the assessment of the competitive impact of cartels and mergers, market definition, damage estimation, abuse of dominant position and state aid investigations.

Enrique has worked on a wide number of antitrust cases across several industries including banking and financial markets, railway, media, tobacco, hardware, consumer research, fast-moving consumer goods, fresh foods and beverages, telecommunications, packaging, electrical equipment, and chemicals. Enrique supervises one of the teams that works on the estimation of damages following the heavy truck manufacturers infringement, for which litigation proceedings are taking place in various European countries. In the recent past, he provided advice on mergers in front of the European Commission, such as Air Canada/Air Transat, Alstom/Bombardier, Telia/Bonnier Broadcasting, E.On/Innogy, T-Mobile/Tele 2 Netherlands, Shire/Takeda and The Walt Disney Company/Twenty-First Century Fox. He also advised on mergers investigated outside the European Union, such as by the UK CMA, the Chilean FNE and other Latin-American competition authorities.

Enrique has given expert testimony before the General Court of the EU, the European Court of Justice, the Spanish Supreme Court, the International Court of Arbitration, several Commercial Courts in Spain, the European Commission and several national competition authorities. He is featured in the Who’s Who of Competition Economists publications.

Before joining Compass Lexecon, Enrique worked for over six years for the Global Competition Policy Practice at LECG. Prior to this, Enrique worked as a Lecturer in Econometrics and Economics at the University of Navarra, and as an Instructor in Economics at University College London where he taught courses on Asset Pricing and Microeconomics.

Enrique holds an M.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, an M.Sc. in Finance from the University of Navarra, as well as a B.Sc. in Quantitative Economics and a B.A. in Business Administration from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Anup is one of the world’s leading scholar, writer, and speaker on the financial, valuation, strategy, governance, and executive compensation issues of modern technology companies.

Anup joined the Haskayne School of Business in July 2018. Previously, he was a professor at Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University) and Tuck School of Business (Dartmouth College).

In October 2018, Anup became Haskayne’s first awardee of Canada Research Chair, a highly prestigious Chair awarded by the Government of Canada. This Chair was renewed in 2024. In May, 2024, he was honored as an Influential thought leader by AACSB.

Anup is an Editor for Contemporary Accounting Research (FT-50, AJG 4) and Accounting Horizons (AJG 3). He is an Associate Editor for Management Science (FT-50, AJG 4*). He is a deputy editor-in-chief for Management and Business Review , a new journal at the intersection of scholarship and practice.

Anup is the “Main Faculty Advisor” to The Haskayne Report, a journal started by the Haskayne students. He is a Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of AcSB (Accounting Standards Board of Canada). He is an economist and mentor at Creative Destruction Lab, an advisory body for startups.

Laura Veldkamp is the Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance & Economics at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business, with an economics Ph.D. from Stanford. She has been a board member and chair of the governance committee for the American Finance Association, an editor of the Journal of Economic Theory and a frequent keynote speaker at prestigious academic conferences in both finance and economics. Currently, Professor Veldkamp serves on the American Economic Association’s awards committee and co-chairs the program committee for the annual conference of the Society for Financial Studies. Her accomplishments have earned her recognition as a fellow of the Econometric Society, the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory, the Finance Theory Group, the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic and Policy Research. In the public sphere, she is an economic advisor for the New York Federal Reserve and the Bank of International Settlements.

Professor Veldkamp’s research examines how investors’ or firms’ use of data and AI affect consumers, the macroeconomy, markups, economic measurement and financial valuations. She is an author of two textbooks: Information Choice in Macroeconomics and Finance, and The Data Economy: Tools and Applications (forthcoming), both with Princeton University Press.

Jan Eeckhout is ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra,  BSE Research Professor, and Professor of Economics at University College London. He has teaching and research interests in Macroeconomics, with a special emphasis on the labor market. He studies unemployment, labor market risk, skill diversity, inequality in cities, and the macroeconomic implications of market power.

Professor Eeckhout’s work has been published in the American Economic Review, Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Political Economy, and has been supported by several government grants, including funding from the National Science Foundation (US) and the European Research Council (Starting and Advanced Grants), as well as private grants. His work has featured in the media, including outlets such as The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Vox, and Bloomberg. He has advised over 30 PhD students who have placed in academic positions from Yale to Chicago and from Beijing to Canberra, as well as in non-academic positions.

In the past, Eeckhout has been a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was for 9 years. He has been the Louis A. Simpson Visiting Professor at Princeton University and has taught at NYU Stern and has been a visiting scholar at MIT. At UPF he has been the chairman of the Department of Economics and Business.

He has been editor of the International Economic Review and is currently on the editorial board of the Review of Economic Dynamics and the Journal of Economic Theory, and is past editorial board member of the Journal of the European Economic Association. He is a fellow of the European Economic Association and a member of the Academia Europaea. He was elected to the Econometric Society in 2019.

I am an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and the Institute for Ethics in AI, as well as a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College, at the University of Oxford.

I work on digital ethics (with an emphasis on privacy and AI ethics), practical ethics more generally, political philosophy, and public policy.

I am the author of Privacy Is Power (an Economist book of the year), The Ethics of Privacy and Surveillance (Oxford University Press, 2024), and the editor of the

Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics.

I collaborate with private and public institutions as a consultant.

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