8h30/ 9h15 – Registration
9h30/10h00 – Opening Session
António Ferreira Gomes, President, Portuguese Competition Authority
Luís Miguel Pais Antunes, President, Association of Portuguese Competition Lawyers
10h00/10h30 – Keynote Speaker
William Kovacic, Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at George Washington
University Law School, Washington, D.C., and Non-Executive Director of the Board,
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), UK
10h30/11h00 – Coffee Break
11h00/12h30 – Could we do without leniency?
Moderator
Frédéric Jenny, Chairman of the OECD’s Competition Law and Policy Committee and
Professor of Economics at the ESSEC Business School, Paris
Speakers
Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe, Madrid
Rosa Abrantes-Metz, Managing Director, Global Economics Group and Adjunct Professor,
NYU Stern School of Business, New York
John Kirkpatrick, Senior Director, Senior Director, Research, Intelligence and Advocacy,
Competition and Markets Authority, UK
Giancarlo Spagnolo, Professor of Economics, SITE – Stockholm School of Economics &
University of ‘Tor Vergata’ – DEF and Research Fellow, C.E.P.R., London & E.N.C.O.R.E,
Amsterdam
13h00 /14h30 - Lunch
14h30/16h00 – Restrictions by object and by effect: where next?
Moderator
Maria João Melícias, Member of the Board, Portuguese Competition Authority
Speakers
Lucas Peeperkorn, Principal Expert in Antitrust Policy, DG COMP, European Commission
Theodor Thanner, Director General, Austrian Competition Authority, Austria
David Anderson, Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP, Brussels
Andrea Gomes da Silva, Senior Legal Director, Markets, Mergers and Sector Regulation,
Competition and Markets Authority, UK
16h00/16h30 – Coffee Break
16h30/18h00 – Disruptive Times: dealing with innovative technologies and business
models
Moderator
Stanley Wong, Chief Executive Officer, Competition Commission, Hong Kong
Speakers
Bruno Lasserre, President, Autorité de la Concurrence, France
Guillaume Loriot, Director, DG COMP, European Commission
Mark MacGann, Head of Public Policy EMEA, Uber
Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google, and Emeritus Professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, California
18h00/19h00 – Cocktail
20h00 – Dinner
9h00/10h30 – Public Procurement: optimizing public resources
Moderator
Giancarlo Spagnolo, Professor of Economics, SITE – Stockholm School of Economics
& University of ‘Tor Vergata’ – DEF and Research Fellow, C.E.P.R.,London & E.N.C.O.R.E,
Amsterdam
Speakers
Joaquim Nunes de Almeida, Director, DG GROW, European Commission
John Davies, Head, Competition Division, OECD
Eduardo Prieto Kessler, Competition Director, National Commission for Markets and
Competition, Spain
Helena Abreu Lopes, Judge, Court of Auditors, Portugal
10h30/11h00 Coffee Break
11h00/12h30 – Portuguese: building a common competition language
Moderator
Teresa Moreira, Director-General for Consumer, Portugal
Speakers
Gilvandro V. Coelho de Araújo, Commissioner, Administrative Council for Economic
Defence, Brazil
Nuno Rocha de Carvalho, Member of the Board, Portuguese Competition Authority
Nelson Osman Jeque, Adviser, Ministry of Industry and Trade, Mozambique
Kinavuidi Kiako, Director, Institute of Prices and Competition, Ministry of Finance,
Angola
Amilcar Aristides Monteiro, Director General for Industry and Trade, Ministry of Tourism,
Investments and Business Development, Cabo Verde
12h30/13h00 Closing Session
António Ferreira Gomes, President, Portuguese Competition Authority
Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins, President, Court of Auditors, Portugal
Speakers
Rosa Abrantes-Metz
Managing Director, Global Economics
Group and Adjunct Professor, NYU
Stern School of Business, New York
John Kirkpatrick
Senior Director, Research, Intelligence
and Advocacy, Competition and
Markets Authority, UK
Joaquim Nunes de Almeida
Director, DG GROW, European
Commission
William Kovacic
Global Competition Professor of Law
and Policy at George Washington
University Law School, Washington,
D.C., and Non-Executive Director of
the Board, Competition and Markets
Authority (CMA), UK
David Anderson
Partner, Berwin Leighton Paisner LLP,
Brussels
Luís Pais Antunes
President of the Association of
Portuguese Competition Lawyers,
Portugal
Gilvandro V. Coelho de Araújo
Commissioner, Administrative Council
for Economic Defence, Brazil
John Davies
Head, Competition Division, OECD
Frédéric Jenny
Chairman of the OECD’s Competition
Law and Policy Committee and
Professor of Economics at the ESSEC
Business School, Paris
Nelson Osman Jeque
Adviser, Ministry of Industry and
Trade, Mozambique
Eduardo Prieto Kessler
Competition Director, National
Commission for Markets and
Competition, Spain
Kinavuidi Kiako
Director, Institute of Prices and
Competition, Ministry of Finance,
Angola
Bruno Lasserre
President, Autorité de la concurrence,
France
Helena Abreu Lopes
Judge, Court of Auditors, Portugal
Guillaume Loriot
Director, DG COMP, European
Commission
Mark MacGann
Head of Public Policy EMEA, Uber,
Amsterdam
Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins
President of the Court of Auditors,
Portugal
Amilcar Aristides Monteiro
Director General for Industry and
Trade, Ministry of Tourism, Investments and Business Development,
Cabo Verde
Teresa Moreira
Director-General for Consumer,
Portugal
Jorge Padilla
Senior Managing Director and Head of
Compass Lexecon Europe, Madrid
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Luc Peeperkorn
Principal Expert in Antitrust Policy, DG
COMP, European Commission
Andrea Gomes da Silva
Senior Legal Director, Markets,
Mergers and Sector Regulation,
Competition and Markets Authority,
UK
Giancarlo Spagnolo
Professor of Economics, SITE
–Stockholm School of Economics &
University of ‘Tor Vergata’ – DEF and
Research Fellow, C.E.P.R., London &
E.N.C.O.R.E, Amsterdam
Theodor Thanner
Director General, Austrian Competition Authority, Austria
Hal Varian
Chief Economist, Google, and
Emeritus Professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, California
Stanley Wong
Chief Executive Officer, Competition
Commission, Hong Kong
The venue
The venue for the IV Lisbon Conference on Competition Law and Economics is the Pestana
Palace Lisboa, Hotel & National Monument, set in the carefully restored 19th century Palace
Valle-Flôr.
The conference will be held in Belém Conference Room.
Further information about the hotel is available at the website of Pestana Palace Lisboa,
www.pestana.com/en/hotel/pestana-palace.
How to get to the Conference Hotel:
Arrival by plane (Lisbon airport);
You will find a taxi rank in the front of the terminal buiding.
The journey from the airport to the Pestana Palace Lisboa should take approx. 20 minutes.
Contacts
If you require any further information please contact us:
[email protected]
www.concorrencia.pt/LisbonConference2015