| Keren BORNSHTEN
is manager of research on regulatory affairs at Cellcom
Israel. She joined Cellcom after serving as a research and
teaching assistant at the faculty of political Science at
Haifa University, where he taught teaching statistics and
research methods. She graduated from Haifa University with
a double major in Middle Eastern studies and political science.
Borenstein also holds a master's degree in public policy,
specializing in regulatory affairs of the telecom markets
of Europe and Israel. Over the years, Borenstein has participated
in numerous conferences and events in the telecom sector.
Borenstein specializes in recent developments in the telecom
sector, as well as judicial and regulatory issues.
Dieter ELIXMANN studied
mathematics and economics. He has been with WIK since 1985
and was appointed head of the research group "Market
Structures and Corporate Strategies" in 1994. Elixmann
has conducted and managed several research and consulting
projects. His activities focus on a broad scale of issues
related to micro- and macroeconomics, public policy, regulation,
competition policy, business strategies and the structure
of telecommunications markets. He has also carried out extensive
econometric research into production structures and demand
analysis in the telecommunications sector. Additionally,
his areas of activity encompass analysis of internationalisation
and globalisation in the telecommunications sector, as well
as multimedia business strategies. He has conducted several
studies relating to technical, economical and policy issues
of access to and interconnection within the Internet. Moreover,
he has worked on a broad range of regulatory topics comprising
interconnection, unbundling and universal service issues.
He has extensive experience with many telecommunications
markets including the USA, Canada, EU Member States, China,
Korea and Russia.
Sean ENNIS is currently
a senior economist in the Competition Division of the OECD
where he has worked since April, 2003. He is responsible
for the work programme related to competition and regulation.
His professional writings have focused on health care, telecommunications
and network industries. After earning a Ph.D. in the economics
of industrial organization from the University of California
at Berkeley in 1996, he worked at the US Department of Justice's
Antitrust Division as an economist until 2002. At the Antitrust
Division, his work encompassed cases in a variety of industries,
including the telecommunications, media and health sectors.
During his tenure at the US DOJ, he submitted affidavits
to both federal court and the Federal Communications Commission
as an economic expert. His largest case at the Antitrust
Division was as the lead internal economist on the proposed
WorldCom- Sprint merger, a merger that was challenged in
District Court by the US DOJ. In 2002, he moved to the European
Commission's DG for Competition, where he practised as an
economist on the Merger Task Force. He worked on a variety
of cases at the MTF, including the Tetra Laval-Sidel merger.
Sean Ennis is unique for having worked as an economist both
for a US competition agency and for the DG for Competition.
Sean.ennis@oecd.org
Anders HENTEN is associate
professor at the Centre for Tele-Information (CTI) at the
Technical University of Denmark. He graduated in communications
and international development studies from Roskilde University
in Denmark and holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University
of Denmark. His main areas of research are the socio-economic
implications of information and communication technologies
including e-commerce and business models, the internationalisation
of services and communication regulation. Anders Henten
has worked professionally in the areas of communications
economics and policy for over a decade and participated
in numerous research projects financed by the European Community,
the Danish Research Council and various ministries.
Natascha JUST is a research
fellow at the ICE – Research Unit for Institutional
Change and European Integration at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences. She has an MA in communication science/romance
philology and a Ph.D. in communication science from the
University of Vienna, where she also lectures in media economics
and politics.
Michael LATZER is deputy
director of the ICE - Research Unit for Institutional Change
and European Integration at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
in Vienna. He has an MSc. in business informatics, a Ph.D.
in political science/educational theory and is Univ.-Doz.
(Associate Professor) for media economics and politics at
the University of Vienna. He has also been a visiting professor
at the University of California (San Diego) and the Vienna
University of Economics, a visiting scientist at Columbia
University (New York) and Keio University (Tokyo), and is
an international fellow of the Global Centre for Communications
(Tokyo).
Carleen MAITLAND is an
assistant professor at the School of Information Sciences
and Technology at Pennsylvania State University in the USA.
Prior to joining the university, she was an assistant professor
at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, from
which she received a Ph.D. in 2001. Her research interests
include telecommunications policy, firm strategies and inter-organizational
network formation in response to technological innovations,
particularly in the area of mobile services.
Dr. Perez MARTINEZ is
professor at the Department of Signals Systems and Radiocommunications,
part of the School of Telecommunications Engineering at
the Polytechnic University of Madrid and director of the
Information and Communications Technologies Research Group.
Dr. Pérez Martínez has carried out ground-breaking
research in a number of information technology related areas.
He has held a number of high-level positions including president
of the Spanish Professional Association of Telecommunications
Engineers, director of the department of Technology Prospective
and Research at the Foundation for the Study of the Telecommunications
(FUNDESCO) and permanent member of the Telecommunications
Advisory Council of the Ministry of Science and Technology.
Dr. Pérez Martínez also played a leading role
in the study of policy for the development of the information
society and regulation of the telecommunications industry
as a coordinator of the Group for the Analysis of the Information
Society (GASI), the Forum for the Development of Telecommunications
(FOROTEL) and the Group for the Regulation of Telecommunications
(GRETEL). Dr. Pérez Martínez is currently
an advisor to the managing director´s office in the
Spanish Public Company for the development of the Information
Society (“Entidad Pública Empresarial Red.es”)
where he is involved in various strategic and policy IS
projects in Spain. Dr. Pérez Martínez obtained
his graduate degree and PhD in Telecommunications Engineering
from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He also holds
a degree in Sociology from the Universidad Complutense of
Madrid.
Anette METZLER studied
business and economics at the University of Augsburg where
she specialised in industrial economics, economic policy,
corporate strategies and organization. After her studies
she did an internship at the Commerzbank AG in Cologne,
where she was engaged in financing of business customers.
Since July 2000 she has been a member of the Market Structure
and Corporate Strategies department of the WIK. Her main
projects focus on Internet related issues and on analysing
structural patterns and the dynamics of national telecommunications
markets.
Lorenz NETT is a graduate
of Bonn University with a Ph.D. in Economics. He is a senior
economist with one of the WIK's regulatory research groups.
His main areas of interest and publications centre on issues
of regulatory economics in telecommunications markets, notably
frequency allocation (auction design, frequency trading),
market analysis, price cap regulation and universal service.
He has acted as an advisor to regulatory authorities in
Germany and other countries. He worked on the “Study
on principles of frequency pricing” and “Guidelines
for implementing frequency trading“ for the Ministry
of Economics in Germany. He was also the leading consultant
to the German Regulatory Authority of Telecommunications
and Posts in the design of their auction of ERMES licenses/frequencies,
additional DCS-1800 frequencies and UMTS/IMT 2000 licences/
frequencies.
Martijn POEL holds a masters
degree in communication science from the University of Amsterdam.
He has also completed economic courses at the Erasmus University
of Rotterdam and legal courses at the Institute for Information
Law in Amsterdam and specialises in media and telecommunications
policy. At the TNO Institute for Strategy, Technology and
Policy, he has led and contributed to several research projects
for the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (responsible
for telecom policy), the Dutch media regulator, the telecom
operator KPN, the telecom industry platform on interconnection
(FIST), the European Commission and the European Parliament.
His fields of research include interconnection, competition
and innovation, in digital broadcasting, broadband and mobile
markets.
Héctor Pérez SAIZ
obtained his graduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering
from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he has
participated in various research projects related to the
development of the information society in Spain and regulation
of the telecommunications industry as member of GRETEL (Group
for the Regulation of Telecommunications). In the course
of his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering he specialised
in telecommunications regulation at the Polytechnic University
of Madrid and has been a member of a spin-off of the Polytechnic
University, Telvium, working on different strategy and regulation
projects in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Pérez
Saiz is currently finishing a DEA in Network and Transport
Economics at the Midi-Pyrénées School of Economics
at the Université de Sciences Sociales in Toulouse.
Sergio Pérez SAIZ
obtained a graduate degree in Telecommunications Engineering
from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he has
taken part in various research projects related to regulation
and the development of the Information Society in Spain.
He has been member of GRETEL (Group for the Regulation of
Telecommunications) and worked as a consultant at the Madrid
office of McKinsey&Company on various strategy projects
for the broadband, IT and electricity markets. Mr. Pérez
Saiz currently works in “Entidad Pública Empresarial
Red.es”, the Spanish Public Company for the development
of the Information Society (Ministry of Science and Technology),
where he is head of the managing director's Cabinet and
Support Unit. At Red.es, Mr Pérez Saiz has been involved
in general strategy and policy projects such as “Strategy
for IS Development in Spain” (Comision Soto) and “Strategy
for e-Government”.
Florian SAURWEIN is a
research fellow at the ICE – Research Unit for Institutional
Change and European Integration at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences. He has an MA in communication science/political
science from the University of Vienna.
Amit M. SCHEJTER is vice
president for regulatory affairs at Cellcom Israel. Schejter
joined Cellcom four years ago after serving, among other
functions, as head of legal affairs and international relations
at the Israel Broadcasting Authority and as an assistant
professor at Tel Aviv University's department of communication.
Dr. Schejter is a graduate of the Law Faculty at Hebrew
University and holds a master's degree from Boston University's
college of communications and a Ph.D. in communication and
information policy from Rutgers University. Over the years,
Dr. Schejter has served on various public committees designing
Israel's communication policies, including chairing the
committee on advertising by cable operators, heading the
Israel Audience Research Board and as a member of the committee
for restructuring the regulation of commercial television
appointed by the Minister of Communications.
Ulrike SCHIMMEL is a graduate
of Mannheim University with a Ph.D. in Economics. Since
January 1999 she has worked as a senior economist in the
“Market Structures and Corporate Strategies“
research group at the WIK. Her main areas of interest concern
issues of competition analysis and regulation in the telecommunication
markets of different countries. She has advised the German
and Swiss regulatory authority, as well as the Ministry
of Economics and the European Commission. She has worked
on comparisons of frameworks in different countries and
was involved in the whole process of designing a WIK-liberalisation
-competition, and -growth index for the fixed link telecommunication
market. She is currently on maternity leave.
Markus SCHNEIDER holds
an Austrian law degree and is currently writing his doctoral
dissertation on European and U.S. regulations on competitors'
access to converged communications platforms at the University
of Vienna. He is also a research assistant at Centre for
Tele-Information (CTI) in Denmark, where he focuses on regulatory
frameworks for investment development in the telecommunications
sector, specifically with respect to Latin America. Markus
Schneider's research also looks at the technological and
regulatory aspects of Digital Rights Management Systems
and TCPA.
Peter SLOMINSKI is a research
fellow at the ICE – Research Unit for Institutional
Change and European Integration at the Austrian Academy
of Sciences. He holds MAs in both communication science/political
science and law, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University
of Vienna. He presently lectures in European politics at
the University of Vienna.
David STEVENS was awarded
a degree in law (cum laude) and an additional certificate
in “Telecommunications Law” by the K.U.Leuven
in June 1998. In August 1998 he joined the “Communications
Law”-team of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law
and IT (ICRI, Faculty of Law - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
as a research assistant. His research looks at the evolving
role of governments in the electronic communications sector.
The most important projects on this subject were funded
by the Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen
(Fund for Scientific Research Flanders), the federal and
regional governments and several private and public market
players. David is also preparing a PhD on this topic. His
research is currently mainly focusing on the transposition
of the new European Electronic Communications directives
into Belgian law. Stevens is heavily involved in the preparation
of government policies for the Belgian telecommunications
and media sectors. On a national level, he was part of the
expert group responsible for drafting a preparatory report
on transposition issues for the federal minister for telecommunications
and the Belgian Institute for Postal Services and Telecommunications
(BIPT). He also acted as an advisor to some of the regional
authorities (“Gemeenschappen”, competent for
broadcasting issues) and was appointed as an expert to the
“Vlaamse Mediaraad” (the advisory body to the
Flemish Minister for Innovation and the Media).
Dr. Ulrich STUMPF has
20 years of experience in advising Regulatory and Competition
Authorities in Germany and other countries, as well as the
European Commission. He is the author of numerous studies
on regulatory and competition policy issues in the telecommunications
and postal sector. He has provided expert advice in various
ministerial and parliamentary hearings in Germany. Dr. Stumpf
received his economics degree at the University of Saarland,
Saarbrücken, and his doctoral degree at the Technical
University of Berlin. He worked as an assistant professor
at the Technical University of Berlin (19978 – 83)
and as a senior economist for the Monopolkommission, an
advisory body for competition policy to the German Ministry
of Economics (1983-89). Since 1990, he has worked at the
WIK Wissenschaftliches Institut für Kommunikationsdienste
GmbH, where he has led several research departments. He
was appointed deputy director of the Institute in 1995 and
has been one of its two directors since 2001.
Peggy VALCKE was conferred
with her K.U. Leuven law degree (magna cum laude) in July
1996. After an internship with law firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke
(currently known as Allen & Overy Brussels), she joined
ICRI as a research fellow. Currently, she carries out research
with regard to the regulation of public information disseminated
through interactive digital media in the converging electronic
information- and communications market. On a regular basis,
Peggy publishes articles in national and international law
reviews. She is a frequent speaker at conferences regarding
the legal aspects of electronic communications. She is also
intensely involved in the preparation of government policies
in the telecommunications and media sector and has participated
in drafting research reports for both public and private
agents (e.g. the German Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration
im Medienbereich - KEK, Belgacom and Telenet). She is a
deputy member of the Flemish Media Council (Vlaamse Mediaraad).
Further, she is co-responsible for the "Communications
Law" course, which is taught in the framework of the
K.U. Leuven L.L.M.-program and she teaches courses in the
European EULISP-program. She is frequently invited as a
guest lecturer at other universities (e.g. "Droit de
l'audiovisuel de la Communauté flamande" of
the DES/DGTIC-program of the University of Namur law faculty).
Finally, she is co-editor of the telecommunications section
of the Dutch/Belgian law review "Computerrecht",
and a member of the editorial board of the law reviews "Auteurs
& Media" and "Revue Ubiquité - Droit
des technologies de l'information". Peggy is currently
finishing her doctoral thesis, which focuses on the question
whether competition law is an effective and sufficient means
to address current and future "bottlenecks" in
the information market, which may endanger pluralism and
diversity of public information. The thesis is expected
to be completed by the end of 2003."
Helen de VLAAM studied
communication science and international relations at the
University of Amsterdam. She currently works as a researcher
for the ICT section of the Faculty of Technology, Policy
and Management at Delft University of Technology in the
Netherlands. Her research topics include the public management
of telecommunications, interconnection regulation and technology-independent
regulation. She recently contributed to international and
interdisciplinary research into the interplay between technology,
policy and market developments concerning interconnection
in fixed, mobile and internet infrastructure markets. She
previously worked as a consultant for DDV Consultancy and
the Dutch Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (OPTA)
and was member of the Board of the Global Telecommunications
Society (GTS) for several years. Her work has been published
in several national and international scientific journals
including Communications & Strategy, British Telecommunications
Engineering, International Journal of Technology, Policy
and Management, Telecommunications and the Space Journal.
Email: Heleenv@tbm.tudelft.nl
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