Federico Etro is Professor of Economics at the the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He also teaches Competition Policy for the Athens University of Economics and Business (at Cresse). He has published several articles in leading international journals such as International Economic Review, European Economic Review, American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, and European Competition Journal. He has been working as a consulgtant for the public and private sectors, for the Ministry of Economy of Italy (Rome) during the Berlusconi Government, for the Task Force on Competition of the International Chamber of Commerce (Paris), and for international corporations as Director of ECG, a small company focused on consulting on innovation and antitrust issues. He is President of the International Thinktank on Innovation and Competition Dr Ioannis Kokkoris is a Reader at the University of Reading in the UK and a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University in Italy. Prior to that he was a Principal Case Officer at the Office of Fair Trading in the UK and an International Consultant on Competition policy for the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe. He has published more than 10 books and 40 articles on competition law, regulation as well as corporate law. Dr Kokkoris' background combines both law and economics. He holds a BA in Economics (Essex, UK) and an MPhil in Economics (Cambridge, UK), as well as an LLM (with distinction Warwick, UK) and a PhD in Competition Law (King's College London, UK) and has conducted research at Harvard Law School. He is Vice Chairman of the Institute of Studies in Competition Law and Policy and Vice President of the International Thinktank on Innovation and Research.