Sessions

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9:15 AM10:00 AM

Opening Session with Mathias Cormann, Carmine Di Noia, Mario Monti and Clare Lombardelli

Mathias Cormann

OECDSecretary-General

Carmine Di Noia

OECDDirector, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs

Clare Lombardelli

OECDChief Economist

Senator of Italy, Former EU Commissioner for Competition, Former Prime Minister, Italy

10:00 AM11:15 AM

Panel 1. The Consumer Welfare Standard in Enforcement Decisions

Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)Chief Executive

Olivier Guersent

European CommissionDirector-General for Competition

Andrea Marván Saltiel

COFECEChairwoman

OECDHead of the Competition Division

11:30 AM12:45 PM

Panel 2. The Relationship between Competition and Innovation

Aura García Pabón

OECDCompetition Expert

RBB EconomicsPartner

Berkeley Research GroupScholar & Entrepreneur

Christine A. Varney

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLPPartner

Panel 3. Algorithms and Competition: friends or foes?

Antonio Capobianco

OECDDeputy Head, Competition Division

Haifa UniversityProfessor of Law

Maarten Pieter Schinkel

University of AmsterdamProfessor of Economics

US DOJSection Chief

Panel 4. Theories of Harm for Digital Mergers

OECDCompetition Expert

Christian Ahlborn

CovingtonPartner

Kirsten Edwards-Warren

Compass Lexecon EMEAExecutive Vice President

European CommissionHead of Unit

Concluding Remarks

OECDHead of the Competition Division