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Lorenzo Giuntini is working in web design, web development and digital communication field since 1999. His intersts are focused on search engines, web publishing and web advertising. During his studies he was involved in AEGEE, one of the biggest interdisciplinary student non-profit organizations aimed to promote Active Citizenship, Higher Education, Peace and Stability, and Cultural Exchange among young european people.

He studied in University of Florence, graduated in Linguistic and Multimedia Communication. He holds a professional degree in “Web application development” from Faculty of Computer Engineering and a Master degree in “Theories of Communication” from Faculty of Education Sciences.

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• STEFANO BARTOLINI (IT) is director of the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute. He has been associate professor at the University of Florence (1985), full professor at the University of Trieste (1990), the University of Geneva (1991), the European University Institute (1994) and the University of Bologna (2004). He is a member of the editorial board of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, and a member of the scientific board of West European Politics, Swiss Review of Political Science, Acta Politica, Electoral Studies, Journal of Theoretical Politics, and Comparative Political Studies. He has been awarded the best book prize of the European Politics section of the APSA (2002), the Gregory Luebbert APSA Prize in Comparative Politics (2001), and the UNESCO Stein Rokkan prize for the Social Sciences (1990). His present academic interests are the relationships between the process of European integration and the key features of the European nation-state experience.
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• MARC BOURREAU (FR) is a Professor of economics at Telecom ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France). He is also a research fellow at the laboratory of industrial economics (LEI) of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST). His research interests lie in the field of industrial economics, with a special focus on competition policy and regulation in telecommunications and media markets. He has published in several leading economic journals. He is the editor of Information Economics & Policy, and serves on the editorial board of Telecommunications Policy and Communications and Strategies. He is also a member of the Scientific Committee at the Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, at the European University Institute (EUI). Marc Bourreau received master degrees in engineering science from Telecom ParisTech and in industrial organization from University of Paris Dauphine, and a PhD in economics from University of Paris Panthéon-Assas.
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• ERIK BOHLIN (SE) is Professor and Head of the Division of Technology & Society, Department of Technology Management & Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg. He has published in a number of areas relating to the information society - policy, strategy and management. He is Chief Editor of Telecommunications Policy; Chair of the International Telecommunications Society; He is also a member of the Scientific Committee at the Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, at the European University Institute (EUI). Erik Bohlin obtained his graduate degree in Business Administration and Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (1987) and his Ph.D. at Chalmers University of Technology (1995).
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• CARLO CAMBINI (IT), is Associate Professor in Industrial Organization in Politecnico di Torino. He is also Economic Advisory Member of Fondazione Ugo Bordoni (private institution linked with the Italian Ministry of Communications). He got a Ph.D. in Public Economics from the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa). He was Visiting Researcher at the Institut d’Economie Industrielle (IDEI) at the University of Toulouse. He specializes in Industrial Organization and Policy, Competition Policy and Regulation, Special focus on the Economics of Public Utilities in general and Economics of Telecommunications. He has published in several leading international journals in Industrial Organization, such as the RAND Journal of Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Review of Industrial Organization, and he is the author of two books on the economics of telecommunications.

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• SUSANA DE LA SIERRA (ES) is managing director of Spain Institute of Film and Audiovisual Arts (ICAA). LL.M. (Bayreuth), Ph.D. (EUI). She is Professor of Administrative Law at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and Co-ordinator of the Master’s Programme on European Union Law. Her research interests include European and global administrative law, comparative law and media law. She has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and the European University Institute (Florence), and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (New York).
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• MARCO GAMBARO (IT) is Associate Professor of Media Economics and Communication Economics at Università degli Studi di Milano where he leads the economic area in Master of Journalism. Previously he taught at IULM University in Milan and Università di Trento. In spring 2009 he was a visiting professor at George Mason University. He has been working as a consultant for private and public institutions on competition in television and newspapers, economics of information and advertising, regulation in media industries. His research interest cover the television industry, Italian and international film industry, the competition in the communication markets, the economics of information and advertising.
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• KRISTINA IRION (DE) is Assistant Professor at the Departments of Public Policy/ Legal Studies and Research Director in Public Policy at the Center for Media and Communications Studies at Central European University. She obtained her Dr. iuris degree from Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and holds a Masters degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications Law from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. She has worked in the field of audiovisual media and electronic communications regulation and policy for ten years as an academic and professional. Kristina Irion was key personnel of two collaborative European research projects on privacy funded by the European Commission and the key public policy expert for the study on Indicators for independence and efficient functioning of audiovisual media services regulatory bodies commissioned by the European Commission. She has drafted a background report for the OECD on child online protection policy and was an expert for identifying emerging and future risks posed by new ICT's for ENISA.
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• BEATA KLIMKIEWICZ (PL) is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Beata Klimkiewicz's research interests include media pluralism and diversity; media policy in Europe; media reform in Central Europe; media system structures and regulatory models; media representations of minorities and minority media. She received her PhD from the Institute of Political Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in 2000. She has studied or held fellowships at the University of Oxford; Columbia University; the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute; and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She has acted as an advisor to the European Commission, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and has co-operated with the Open Society Institute in Budapest, the Media Diversity Institute in London and the Peace Institute in Ljubljana.
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• STEFANO MANNONI is full Professor at the Law School of Florence. He has been Professeur invité at the Faculté de droit Paris I Sorbonne, visiting scholar at the Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, visiting scholar at the Nuffield College, Oxford, and Jean Monnet fellow at the IUE. He teaches constitutional history and Eu law of electronic communications. He was elected Commissioner at the Agcom in 2005, the Italian regulatory body for telecommunications and media, where he served for seven years, focusing mainly on networks and market analysis  and on some issues of media law, notably dominant positions and pluralism. 
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• ANTONIO NICITA (IT) is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. Graduated cum laude with a degree in Economics and Social Discipline from Bocconi University of Milan, he pursued graduate studies at Cambridge and Siena where he earned his PhD in Economics. He served as an Economist at the Italian Antitrust Authority. In 2003 he founded with Pier Luigi Parcu a consulting company www.studioeconomico.it based in Rome, Italy and specialized on competition policy, antitrust and regulation advise. In 2006 has been visiting Fulbright professor in Yale, new Haven. He is one of the founders of the Italian Society of Law and Economics (www.side-isle.it) and he is now general secretary of the association. He has also been elected for 2006-9 in the board of directos of ISNIE, International Society for New Istitutional Economics. From sept 2006 Nicita has been appointed as economic advisor of the Italian Minister of Communications and as a member of the Unit for simplification and quality of regulation at the Italian Prime Minister Office. In 2009 he served as economic advisor of the OECD Report on the Quality of Regulation in Italy and as an economic consultant of the Italian Authority for Communications (ISBUL Project). Prof. Nicita is the author of several publications on competition, regulation issues, economics of contracts and law and economics.
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• BRANKICA PETKOVIC (SL) is head of the Center for Media Policy at the Peace Institute in Ljubljana and Editor-in-Chief of the Media Watch book series and Media Watch journal. Her work at the Peace Institute is focused on monitoring, policy research, advocacy, training/education and publishing activities in the field of media accountability (professional standards), access of minority groups and citizens to the media (communication rights of citizens and minority groups), media content diversity and media ownership pluralism. She is author of number of articles and reports and co-author of books on the above mentioned topics. She has been a project leader of number of national and regional research and advocacy projects, including “Media ownership and its impact on media independence and pluralism in South East European and new EU member countries” (2003/04).
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• ANTONIO SASSANO (IT) is Professor of Operations Research at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome “Sapienza” and member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation. His scientific and professional activity has been concentrated in two complementary areas: the study of the mathematical structure of hard optimisation problems and the use of this knowledge to model and solve challenging “real life instances”. His research activity has been mainly devoted to the study of the polyhedral structure of combinatorial problems and to the design and testing of optimisation algorithms. He applied his theoretical research to the design of the Italian Frequency Plan for Terrestrial Analogue Television in 1998, the study of the Frequency Plan for FM-Radio and, more recently, the design of the Frequency Plan for DAB in 2002 and of the Frequency Plan for DVB-T in 2003 and in 2010. He has been one of the advisors of the Italian Government in the auction procedures for the UMTS licenses (2001) and the WLL licenses (2002).
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• IVAR TALLO (EE), is member of the faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tartu, where he has held the Public Administration chair since 2003. Ivar Tallo is one of the founders and directors of e-Governance Academy. He served as a senior program officer at the UNITAR, responsible for the e-governance programme. Before that, he was a Member of Parliament of Estonia and Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. He is several publications and drafted the Basic Principles of Information Policy of Estonia, Code of Conduct for Civil Servants and co-authored Public Information Act. He was also raporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Cybercrime convention.
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• ALEXANDER H. TRECHSEL (CH) is Professor of Political Science and the first full-time holder of the Swiss Chair in Federalism and Democracy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He completed his academic education at the Universities of Geneva, Michigan, Essex, Oslo and at the European University Institute. He received his Ph.D. in political science (with distinction) from the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Before coming to the EUI in 2005 he was Vice-Director of the Research and Documentation Centre on Direct Democracy (c2d) at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva (1999-2005). Prof. Trechsel initiated and coordinates the new European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the EUI. His research interests include e-democracy, direct democracy, federalism, European integration and political behaviour.
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• PEGGY VALCKE (BE) is full time Research Professor at K.U.Leuven where she teaches media law. She is member of the Scientific Committee of the Florence School of Regulation and current director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT (ICRI). Peggy Valcke obtained her PhD in Law in 2003 with a dissertation on "Pluralism in a digital interactive media environment: Analysis of sector specific regulation and competition law". She has been involved in various research projects in the area of media and communications law, (user-generated content, mobile television, e-publishing and online journalism, public service broadcasting and state aid, co- and self-regulation in the media, privacy in electronic communications and social networks). She edits the International Encyclopaedia of Media Law and is a member of the editorial board of following journals: The Journal of Media Law (Hart Publishing), Computer, Law and Security Review (Elsevier). She also participated in OfcomWatch (weblog about communications policy and regulation in the UK and Europe).