Daniel Dombey is a columnist for the Financial Times (FT) in Brussels. His column covers competition policy, liberalisation issues, corporate governance, and key legal cases, including Microsoft and Alstom. He has covered such issues as the Convention on the Future of Europe and EU energy and transport policy, and has reported on news concerning Belgium and Luxembourg. Currently he concentrates on EU commissioners Mario Monti and Frits Bolkestein’s policies. Mr. Dombey spent four years (from 1994 to 1997) working in Mexico, reporting for the FT on matters ranging from the Zapatista rebellion to barriers to entry in the telecom market. He then served in London as an editor for the FT's world desk and later for its Observer column. Mr. Dombey studied politics, economics, and philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford and has a Master of Philosophy in Latin American studies from Cambridge University.

Luke Froeb is the Director of the U.S. Economic Bureau of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). He previously taught at Tulane University and then worked as an economist in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice. He worked on price-fixing, bid-rigging and merger cases. Since 1993, he has taught Managerial Economics and Regulation and Antitrust in the MBA programs at Vanderbilt. Professor Froeb received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin. He has published extensively on auctions, mergers, and econometrics.

Robert Hahn is cofounder and executive director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center, which focuses on regulation and antitrust. Previously, he worked for the United States President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He also has served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hahn frequently contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal and Science. Recently, he authored Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global Perspective and edited High-Stakes Antitrust. This year he will publish an AEI-Brookings book on the economic analysis of regulation and an edited volume on intellectual property rights in high-technology industries. In addition, Dr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School––an inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.

Jorge Atilano Padilla is head of NERA’s Madrid office and Co-Chair of the NERA European Competition Policy Practice. Dr. Padilla is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), and is or has been a member of the editorial boards of the Review of Economic Studies, Spanish Economic Review and Investigaciones Económicas (which he directed for more than three years). Dr. Padilla has written several papers on competition policy and industrial organization in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, the RAND Journal of Economics, the European Competition Law Review and World Competition. He is also a regular speaker at competition policy conferences in Europe and the United States.

Lars-Hendrik Röller is the chief economist of the Directorate-General for Competition in EC and a professor of Economics at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he holds the Chair for Industrial Economics. Since 1994 he has been the Director of the Institute for “Competitiveness and Industrial Change” at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. He previously was a professor at INSEAD and co-director of the Industrial Organisation Program at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Professor Röller is a member of the German-French Council of Economic Advisors, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Scientific Council for Transatlantic Cooperation, the Executive Board of the German Economic Association and the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE). He has published extensively on competition issues and sits on the editorial boards of a number of journals, including the International Journal of Industrial Economics.

Michael Schütte joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 1990 and is currently the office managing partner for their Brussels office. His areas of practice include competition, state aid and trade law as well as mergers and acquisitions and privatisations. Dr. Schütte is recognized as an eminent state aid specialist. He has published several articles in the fields of competition, East German privatisations, state aid and anti-dumping. He is a regular lecturer on state aid and trade/WTO issues. Dr. Schütte received his legal education at the Universities of Freiburg and Heidelberg. He holds the degree of Doctor of Laws (Dr. iur.) from the University of Hamburg.