Anna Vernet is Head of Unit for the unit responsible for cooperation within the European Competition Network, cooperation with national Courts and Private Enforcement in DG Competition. The role of the unit is to ensure coherent and effective public and private enforcement in the EU.

From 2009 to 2015 Anna was working as Policy Analyst in Directorate A of DG Competition dealing with antitrust policy. She started her career at the European Commission in 2004 by joining the telecommunications unit of DG Competition. Prior to working for the European Commission, Anna was in private practice where she was advising clients in various sectors on different aspects of competition law. Anna graduated from Uppsala University in 1998 and also holds a Master from the European University Institute of Fiesole, Italy.

Elisabetta M. Lanza is an investigative officer at the Italian Competition Authority (since 2012), where she currently works at the Directorate for Competition. She has been case-handler of several cases, among which: the "Aspen" case dealing with an abuse of dominance for excessive pricing in the pharmaceutical sector; the “Unilever” case related to exclusivity agreements and fidelity-inducing rebates.

Before working for the Italian Competition Authority, she was a solicitor in the field of administrative law and civil law.

She holds a Law Degree from the University of Catania (2006) and a Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Ferrara (2012). In 2009 she was a Visiting scholar researcher at the Yale Law School.

She is frequently lecturing about her research and practice at universities and scientific conferences.

She wrote several articles on competition law and public law. Among her academic publications and essays, can be mentioned: “Excessive Price Abuses: The Italian Aspen Case”, with P. Sfasciotti, in Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, Oxford Journals, 2017; “The Unilever exclusionary strategy in the impulse packaged ice cream market”, with D. Giangiulio, in Italian Antitrust Review, 2017, n.2; “Core of State Sovereignty and European Union’s Identity in the Lissabon – Urteil”, in German Law Journal, Vol. n. 11, n. 4 (2010); “The Relationships between EU and Global Antitrust Regulation”, in “Global Administrative Law and EU Administrative Law. Relationships, Legal Issues and Comparison”, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.

Anne-Charlotte has been working for 14 years at the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA) as an economist, and has specialized in network industries and the pharmaceutical sector. As prosecutor, she is currently involved in pharma cases, and also coordinates the Pharma Task Force at the BCA.

Before working at the BCA, Anne-Charlotte worked as a free-lancer for 10 years (accounting and administrative follow-up of, mainly, construction firms).