Roundtable on Competition Law & Policy and the Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

On Thursday 5 December 2024, the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at UCL, Sciences Po, and the Inclusive Competition Forum hosted a roundtable event on Competition Law and Policy and the Technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The roundtable was convened by Prof. Ioannis Lianos (UCL) and Prof. Dina Waked (Sciences Po).

The roundtable was organised during the OECD competition week in Paris and brought together sixteen heads and representatives of competition authorities from the OECD countries, including the Assistant Attorney General at the US Department of Justice, the CEO of the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the Presidents of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Belgian, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Romanian, the South African competition authorities, as well as representatives from the competition authorities of Austria, Czech republic, France, Greece, Italy, Mexico, academics and representatives from civil society to discuss the important challenges competition authorities currently face due to the development of AI and the “coming wave” of the fourth industrial revolution, a topic explored in a recent publication by the CLES co-Director, Prof. Ioannis Lianos (forth. Theoretical Inquiries in Law).

The roundtable was co-convened by Prof. Ioannis Lianos (UCL) and Prof. Dina Waked (Sciences Po) and follows up the important collaboration between the teams of the CLES and the TRACK AI project at Sciences Po in producing research work that can have an important policy impact. The attendance of a number of competition authorities of international standing showcases the significance of the initiative and its potential for global policy impact.

Several academics from UCL also shared their research during the discussion, including Dr. Stavros Makris (Laws, CLES), Todd Davies (Laws, CLES), Assoc. Prof. Cecilia Rikap (UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose), Hon. Prof. Cristina Caffarra (UCL Laws).

For more information on the participants and the programme of this event, visit the event page.

For a summary of the discussions, visit the UCL CLES website.