Nicholas Hirst
Chief Competition Correspondent, MLEX
Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006
14:10 - 14.55
Tuesday Plenary Agenda Day 2
Panel 5: Rising up to the Challenge: Competition vs. Competitiveness
- Antitrust: global and industry perspectives on competition policy – what can different jurisdictions learn from each other’s approaches to anticompetitive behaviour?
- Pro-growth: How can regulatory and macroeconomic policies boost competitiveness and address market concentration?
- What is the role of investment in “levelling up” the global tech landscape, and how can this be achieved?
- What’s the role of “big tech” in enabling other players to thrive?