The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has appointed
specialists at the forefront of technological innovation, online
competition and tackling the dominance of some of the world’s
most powerful firms.
This comes as the CMA prepares to be given new powers by
government to tackle problems in online markets more rapidly, and
ensure consumers benefit from free and fair competition. This
means, for example, being able to set targeted rules which the
most powerful firms must follow, rather than tackling problems
after the harm has already been done.
The experts advising the CMA are:
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Professor Annabelle Gawer - chaired Professor in Digital
Economy and Director of the Centre of Digital Economy at
Surrey Business School, University of Surrey
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Professor Anja Lambrecht - Professor of Marketing, London
Business School
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Professor Neil Lawrence - DeepMind Professor of Machine
Learning at the University of Cambridge, Senior AI Fellow at
the Alan Turing Institute
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Geoffrey Myers - Visiting Professor in Practice at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. Former Director of
Competition Economics at Ofcom.
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Mark Nottingham - Expert in Internet standards, contributor
to the Internet Engineering Task Force and Member of the
Board of Directors for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
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Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt - Principal of Jesus College,
Oxford and Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of
Computer Science, University of Oxford. Chair of the Open
Data Institute.
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Rod Sims AO - Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, at
the Australian National University. Former Chair of The
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
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Dina Srinivasan – Researcher and lawyer. Fellow, Thurman
Arnold Project, Yale University
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Dr Mahlet Zimeta – Data and technology policy expert,
previously Head of Public Policy at the Open Data Institute
and Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society
Will Hayter, Senior Director for the Digital Markets Unit at the
CMA, said:
We’re working to ensure that UK consumers and businesses continue
to enjoy the benefits of online innovation, which can only come
from fair competition.
The online world moves fast and we need to ensure competition
rules are not just fit for today – but are also capable of
responding to future digital challenges.
That’s why we’re bringing in these leading experts, who can
provide us with insight and advice, and I look forward to working
with them and government as we continue to take action in digital
markets and prepare for the new pro-competition regime.
More information on the appointed experts can be found on the
CMA website.
Notes to editors
- The nine experts bring independent insight and practical
experience and will support the CMA in maintaining a detailed
understanding of the dynamics and operation of digital markets.
They have been appointed in an advisory capacity, for an initial
two-year period with an expectation that they will support CMA
teams for up to 20 days a year
- The Chancellor confirmed in his autumn statement that the
government will shortly introduce new legislation that will give
the CMA new powers to deal with anti-competitive practices in
digital markets.
