techUK is launching a series of discussions on key digital regulation developments in London and Brussels, that will run once a month throughout 2021. The first one will focus on new initiatives on competition.
The European Commission and the UK’s Digital Markets Taskforce have recently proposed how they plan to regulate competition in digital markets.
The European Commission has proposed a Digital Markets Act which targets a specific list of ‘gatekeeper platforms’, whereas the UK Government is setting up a new Digital Markets Unit in the Competition and Markets Authority, to designate ‘strategic market status’ and operationalise some of the core elements of the UK’s pro-competitive regime.
As the UK and the EU continue to develop this legislation along similar timelines, we would like to invite you to join a virtual webinar organised jointly by techUK and CCIA on Thursday 25th February, 11am – 12pm GMT, to hear from an expert panel about the commonalities and differences of these two approaches.
Our panel will be made up of the following regulators, academics, and industry specialists:
- Daniel Gordon, Senior Director of Markets, Competition & Markets Authority;
- Thomas Kramler, Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission;
- Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, Director of Competition Law, British Institute of International and Comparative Law;
- Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli, Competition and Regulatory Counsel, Computer & Communications Industry Association;
- Sabina Ciofu, Head of EU and Trade Policy, techUK (moderator)
If you have any issues with registering for this event, please email Zoe Brockbank.
Sabina Ciofu
Sabina Ciofu
Sabina Ciofu is Associate Director – International, running the International Policy and Trade Programme at techUK.
Based in Brussels, she leads our EU policy and engagement. She is also our lead on international trade policy, with a focus on digital trade chapter in FTAs, regulatory cooperation as well as broader engagement with the G7, G20, WTO and OECD.
As a transatlanticist at heart, Sabina is a GMF Marshall Memorial fellow and issue-lead on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council, within DigitalEurope.
Previously, she worked as Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament for almost a decade, where she specialised in tech regulation, international trade and EU-US relations.
Sabina loves building communities and bringing people together. She is the founder of the Gentlewomen’s Club and co-organiser of the Young Professionals in Digital Policy. Previously, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, she led several youth civic engagement and gender equality projects.
She sits on the Advisory Board of the University College London European Institute, Café Transatlantique, a network of women in transatlantic technology policy and The Nine, Brussels’ first members-only club designed for women.
Sabina holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge.
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