MEMBERS ONLY | Private Briefing with Olivier Guersent, Director-General at Directorate General Competition, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Where does that leave EU’s antitrust policy and enforcement, and what about the Digital Market Act or even merger control?
Will the European Commission – namely the Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) – use all of these instruments in parallel to address the challenges brought about by AI?
Is the EU approach to AI and the key players involved in its development and deployment different from that of the US?

Director General Olivier Guersent will join us for an update from Europe on these evolving topics.

GUEST OF HONOR:

Olivier Guersent, Director-General of the Directorate General for Competition, EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Olivier Guersent has been the Director-General of the Directorate General for Competition since January 2020.

He joined the European Commission in 1992, initially with the “Merger Task Force” in the Directorate-General for Competition. Since then, he has alternated between the private offices of a number of European Commissioners (Karel Van Miert, Michel Barnier and Neelie Kroes) and DG Competition (successively Deputy Head of Unit in charge of cartels, Head of Unit in charge of policy and coordination of cases, Head of Unit in charge of merger control, Acting Director “Transport, postal and other services” and, from 2009, Director responsible for the fight against cartels. From 2010 to 2014 he was the head of the private office of Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Having held the position of Deputy Director-General since July 2014, Olivier Guersent has been Director-General of the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union from 1 September 2015 to 31 December 2019.

He graduated with distinction from the “Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux” in 1983. He joined the French Ministry of Economy and Finance in 1984, where he carried out many investigations for the French Competition Authority.

TIME:
8:30 – 9:00 AM Arrival | 9:00 – 10:00 AM Discussion | 10:00 – 10:30 AM Networking

NOTE: This is a members only event, non-EACCNY members will not be admitted!