Craig Whelan is Deputy Director of the Competition Enforcement and Mergers division at the CCPC. Craig oversees the CCPC’s newly established Digital Markets unit which focuses on abuse of dominance and vertical restriction cases in digital markets and also manages the CCPC’s activities under the Digital Markets Act as they relate to competition enforcement. Craig developed and managed the CCPC’s policy positions during the DMA legislative process which included engagement with Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment and the European Commission, and in the preparation of DMA implementing legislation in Ireland. Craig was also involved in the transposition of the ECN+ directive in Ireland by way of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 and the development of CCPC policies and procedures resulting from that Act, including fining guidelines and settlement procedure.

Pedro Hinojo is an Economist working at CNMC (Spanish Commission on Markets and Competition) as the Head of the Information Society Unit in the Competition Directorate, in charge of competition policy in digital, telecom, media, intellectual property and other related sectors. Previously he had worked in the Research Unit, focused on digital markets, sharing economy, telecoms, financial sector and general advocacy and compliance issues. He has worked in other areas of the public sector related to economic analysis and economic policy. He has several publications in these fields and academic experience.

Michael Høg Riis heads Center for TECH in the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority. As part of the competition authority in Denmark, the center handles cases regarding tech and finance, enforce the P2B-regulation in Denmark and support the EU-Commission in regards to the DMA. In the past few years the authority have made a number of infringement decisions regarding digital markets and also published several studies and shorter papers on matters related to competition in the digital sphere.

Ulrike Menden is Head of Digital Economy Unit in the General Policy Division at the Bundeskartellamt, Germany’s Competition Authority. Previously she worked in the Policy Unit for Regulation and Competition and as a Senior Case Handler in the decision division for transport, tourism and financial services at the Bundeskartellamt.