The Perfect Storm:

A Time of Truth for Europe?

30 January 2025

Steigenberger Wiltcher’s Hotel, Brussels

Brux Conference 2024

Antitrust, Regulation and the Next World Order

Speakers

Didier Reynders

Commissioner for Justice

European Commission

Katherine Tai

US Trade Representative

Lina Khan

Chairwoman

US Federal Trade Commission

Jonathan Kanter

Assistant Attorney General

US Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Olivier Guersent

Director General, DG for Competition

European Commission

Andreas Mundt

President BKA

Benoît Coeuré

President Adlc

Nuno Cunha Rodrigues

President AdC

Marc Van Der Woude

President

General Court of the EU

Rohit Chopra

Director CFPB

Laurence Boone

Secretary of State for European Affairs, France

Franziska Brantner

State Secretary

German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs

Heather Boushey

White House Council of Economic Advisers

Gina Cass-Gottlieb

Chair

Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

Rebecca Slaughter

US Federal Trade Commission

Sarah Cardell

Chief Executive

Competition and Markets Authority

Doha Mekki

Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General

US Department of Justice Antitrust Division

René Repasi

Member European Parliament

Rana Faroohar

Financial Times

Brando Benifei

Member European Parliament

AI Act Rapporteur

Alberto Bacchiega

Director, Platforms DG Competition

European Commission

John Newman

Deputy Director

US Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Competition

Daron Acemoglu

Institute Professor

MIT Department of Economics

Aviv Nevo

University of Pennsylvania

Luigi Zingales

Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance

University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Isabella Weber

Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Erik Brynjolfsson

Professor

Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

Gabriel Zucman

Associate Professor

University of California

Tommaso Valletti

Professor of Economics

Imperial College Business School, London

Jan Eeckhout

Barcelona School of Economics

Ufuk Akcigit

Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics

University of Chicago

Florian Ederer

Boston University

Amba Kak

Executive Director

AI Now Institute

Nathan Lane

Associate Professor

Oxford University

Joanna Bryson

Professor of Ethics and Technology

Hertie School of Governance

Barry Lynn

Open Markets Institute

Johnny Ryan

Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Filomena Chirico

Head of Unit, DG Connect

DMA Task Force

Francesca Bria

Stiftung Mercator

Andreas Schwab

Member of European Parliament

Roberto Viola

Director General

DG Connect

Sir Marcus Smith

President

UK Competition Appeals Tribunal

James Hodge

Chief Economist

South African Competition Commission

Agenda

08:15CET

Chair Scene Setting

08:20CET

Rebooting the Next Commission

Conversation with Olivier Guersent, Director General, DG Competition and Andreas Schwab, Member of the European Parliament

09:00CET

“From Price to Power”? Reorienting Antitrust for the New Political Economy

Andreas Mundt, President, Bundeskartellamt
Luigi Zingales, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Tommaso Valletti, Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School, London
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, Commissioner, US Federal Trade Commission
Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission

10:00CET

Are the Courts Likely to Listen?

Comments from Marc Van Der Woude, President, General Court of the EU

10:10CET

Market Power Dysfunctions: Seller Inflation, Inequality and AI Acceleration

Isabella Weber, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan Eeckout, ICREA Research Professor of Economics, UPF Barcelona
Gabriel Zucman, Associate Professor, Paris School of Economics and UC Berkeley
Florian Ederer, Professor, Boston University
Doha Mekki, Principal Deputy AAG, US Department of Justice Antitrust Division

11:00CET

Coffee

11:10CET

Industrial Policy Revisited:  Sovereignty, Resilience, Competitiveness & Innovation

Nathan Lane, Associate Professor, Oxford University
Ufuk Akgicit, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
Heather Boushey, Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President
René Repasi, Member of the European Parliament

11:50CET

Connecting Trade, Competition and Industrial Policy in the Next World Order

Katherine Tai, US Trade Ambassador, Executive Office of the President
Laurence Boone, Secretary of State for European Affairs, France
Franziska Brantner, State Secretary, German Ministry for Economic Affairs
James Hodge, Chief Economist, South African Competition Commission

12:40CET

“The Great Reordering”-  What comes after the Washington Consensus, and why Antitrust is at the heart of it

Rana Foroohar, The Financial Times, in conversation with Rohit Chopra, Director, US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Comments: Barry Lynn, Executive Director, Open Markets Institute
Stéphanie Yon Courtin, Member of the European Parliament

13:20CET

Lunch

14:00CET

Commissioner Reynders address

Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice, European Commission

14:25CET

Fireside with AAG Jonathan Kanter

Jonathan Kanter, Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice Antitrust Division

14:50CET

Antitrust as Agent for Change

Sarah Cardell, Chief Executive, UK Competition and Markets Authority
Benoît Coeuré, President, Autorité de la Concurrence
Nuno Rodrigues, President, Portuguese Competition Authority
John Newman, Professor of Law, University of Miami, former Director US FTC
Aviv Nevo, Director of the Bureau of Economics, US Federal Trade Commission

15:40CET

Coffee

16:00CET

Conversation with Chair Lina Khan

Lina Khan, Chair, US Federal Trade Commission

16:25CET

Concluding Fireside – AI Awakening: Making it Pro-Human Despite the Tech Industry?

Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT Department of Economics
Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

17:00CET

The European Giant Digital Regulation Project: What is our Theory of Change?

Alberto Bacchiega, Director, Platforms, DG Competition European Commission
Filomena Chirico, DG Connect, DMA Task Force, European Commission
Brando Benifei, Member of the European Parliament, AI Act Repporteur
Amba Kak, Executive Director, AI Now Institute
Francesca Bria, President, Italian National Innovation Fund
Johnny Ryan, Director of Enforce, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Joanna Bryson, Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School of Governance

18:30CET

End of Conference and Champagne Reception

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