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Speakers’ BiosSteven TADELISSteve Tadelis is a Professor of Economics and Sarin Chair in Leadership and Strategy at Berkeley Haas. His research primarily revolves around e-commerce and theeconomics of the internet.During the 2016-2017 academic year he was on leave at Amazon, where he applied economic research tools to a variety of product and business applicationsand worked with technologists, computer and ML scientists, and business leaders.During the 2011-2013 academic years he was on leave at eBay research labs, wherehe hired and led a team of research economists who focused on the economics ofe-commerce, with particular attention to creating better matches of buyers andsellers; reducing market frictions by increasing trust and safety in eBay’s marketplace; understanding the underlying value of different advertising and marketingstrategies; and exploring the market benefits of different pricing structures.Aside from the economics of e-commerce, his main fields of interest are the economics of incentives and organizations, industrial organization, and microeconomics. Some of his past research aspired to advance our understanding of theroles played by two central institutions—firms and contractual agreements—andhow these institutions facilitate the creation of value. Within this broader framework, Tadelis explored firm reputation as a valuable, tradable asset; the effectsof contract design and organizational form on firm behavior with applications tooutsourcing and privatization; public and private sector procurement and awardmechanisms; and the determinants of trust.Daniel FRANCISDaniel Francis is the Associate Director for Digital Markets in the Federal TradeCommission’s Bureau of Competition, where he helps to oversee the Bureau’s antitrust enforcement and policy activities in digital and high-technology markets,including the work of the Bureau’s new Technology Enforcement Division (formerly the Technology Task Force). Daniel also helps to supervise various merger andconduct matters outside the digital space. He was previously Senior Counsel tothe Director of the Bureau of Competition.12Before joining the FTC, Daniel served as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law atHarvard Law School, and spent ten years in the private practice of antitrust lawwith two multinational law firms, where his work focused on the defense, aerospace, and oil and gas sectors. Daniel’s academic interests include US and EU constitutional law and federalism as well as antitrust: he previously taught a courseon European Union constitutional law and political history at Harvard College; haspublished on public law, antitrust and related topics; and served as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law from Fall 2016 to Spring2018. Daniel holds degrees in law from Trinity College, Cambridge, and HarvardLaw School.Wi-Fi Access: Harvard Guest

Christopher S. YOOChristopher S. Yoo is the John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, andComputer & Information Science and the Founding Director of the Center forTechnology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania. He isthe author of over one hundred scholarly works and has taught at over a dozenuniversities around the world. His major research projects include comparing dueprocess in antitrust enforcement practices in China, Europe, and the U.S.; analyzingthese jurisdictions’ responses to big data; assessing antitrust liability for high-techplatforms; and analyzing the technical determinants of optimal interoperability.He has also created innovative joint degree programs designed to produce a newgeneration of professionals with advanced training in both law and engineering.Professor Yoo received his A.B. from Harvard University, his M.B.A. from UCLA, andhis J.D. from Northwestern University. Before entering the academy, Professor Yooclerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the Supreme Court of the United Statesand practiced law with the predecessor firm to Hogan Lovells under the supervision of now-Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. He is frequently called to testify before the U.S. Congress, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S. Justice Department Antitrust Division, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, foreign governments,and international organizations. He is currently serving as a member of the Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, theBoard of Advisers for the American Law Institute’s Project on Principles of Law forData Privacy, and the joint European Law Institute-American Law Institute projecton Principles for a Data Economy.David MCLAUGHLINDavid McLaughlin is a journalist at Bloomberg News. He holds an MBA form NYUStern School of Business with particular focus on finance, economics and businessanalytics. David has an extensive experience reporting on competition policy andantitrust enforcement, mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring.Noah J. PHILLIPSFollowing his nomination by President Donald J. Trump and unanimous confirmation by the United States Senate, Noah Joshua Phillips was sworn in as a Commissioner on the Federal Trade Commission on May 2, 2018. Before coming to theFTC, Phillips served as Chief Counsel to U.S. Senator John Cornyn, of Texas, on theSenate Judiciary Committee. From 2011 to 2018, he advised Senator Cornyn onlegal and policy matters including antitrust, constitutional law, consumer privacy,Wi-Fi Login: Harvard Guest13

Speakers’ Biosfraud, and intellectual property. Prior to his Senate service, Phillips worked as alitigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, in New York City, and Steptoe & JohnsonLLP, in Washington, D.C. Phillips began his career at Wasserstein Perella & Co., an investment bank in New York City. Phillips received his A.B. from Dartmouth Collegeand his J.D. from Stanford Law School.Nikhil SHANBHAGNikhil Shanbhag is Vice President of Competition and Regulatory Law at Facebook,where he manages a team that handles competition, telecommunications, andregulatory issues for the company. He previously served as General Counsel fordelivery startup Instacart, as Director of Competition Law at Google, and was atO’Melveny & Meyers between 2004 and 2007.Nikhil holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Cornell University and a JDfrom Yale Law School, where he was a John M. Olin Fellow for Law and Economicsand Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal. From 2003-2004, he served as a LawClerk for the Honorable Barrington D. Parker, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.William E. KOVACICWilliam E. Kovacic is Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at GeorgeWashington University Law School, Professor of Law and Director of the Competition Law Center.Since August 2013, Professor Kovacic has served as a Non-Executive Director withthe United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. From January 2009 toSeptember 2011, he was Vice-Chair for Outreach for the International Competition Network.Bill’s papers and articles feature antitrust in the high technology industry, behavioral economics and its applications, competition agency design, integrity inpublic procurement, and on organizations such as the International CompetitionNetwork, World Trade Organization, and FTC. He has advised many countries andinternational organizations on antitrust, consumer protection, government contracts, and the design of regulatory institutions.Prior to 1999, Professor Kovacic was the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law (now the Antonin Scalia LawSchool). He has also served as Commissioner and Chairman of the US FTC, among14Wi-Fi Access: Harvard Guest

other appointments, and in 2011 received the FTC’s Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award forLifetime Achievement. He is co-editor of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement,and has published numerous papers on competition law and economics in leadingjournals both in the US and Europe.Leah NYLENLeah Nylen is the Chief Global Antitrust Correspondent for MLex, where she reportson US antitrust policy, cartels, intellectual property, conduct and private damageactions. She was selected as an Abe Journalist Fellow in 2014 by the Social ScienceResearch Council and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership for areporting project on Japanese cartels and cartel deterrence policies. Leah haspreviously worked for Bloomberg, Main Justice and Congressional Quarterly, andreceived a Master’s from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.Catherine TUCKERCatherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and a Professor of Marketing at MIT Sloan. She is also Chair of the MIT Sloan PhD Program.Her research interests lie in how technology allows firms to use digital data andmachine learning to improve performance, and in the challenges this poses for regulation. Tucker has particular expertise in online advertising, digital health, socialmedia, and electronic privacy. Her research studies the interface between marketing, the economics of technology, and law.She has received an NSF CAREER Award for her work on digital privacy, the Erin Anderson Award for an Emerging Female Marketing Scholar and Mentor, the GarfieldEconomic Impact Award for her work on electronic medical records, the Paul E.Green Award for contributions to the practice of Marketing Research, the William F.O’Dell Award for most significant, long-term contribution to Marketing, and the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Long Term Impact Award for long-run impacton marketing.She is a cofounder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab which studies the applicationsof blockchain and also a co-organizer of the Economics of Artificial Intelligence initiative sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She has been a Visiting Fellow atAll Souls College, Oxford. She has testified to Congress regarding her work on digitalprivacy and algorithms, and presented her research to the OECD and the ECJ.Tucker is coeditor at Quantitative Marketing and Economics, associate editor atManagement Science, Marketing Science, and the Journal of Marketing Researchand a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She teachesMIT Sloan’s course on Pricing and the EMBA course “Marketing Management for theSenior Executive.” She has received the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching aswell as being voted “Teacher of the Year” at MIT Sloan.She holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University and a BA from the Universityof Oxford.Wi-Fi Login: Harvard Guest15

Speakers’ BiosHal R. VARIANHal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google and has been involved in manyaspects of the company, including auction design, econometric analysis, finance,corporate strategy and public policy. He is also an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management.Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrialorganization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. Heis the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into22 languages. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and wrote a monthlycolumn for the New York Times from 2000 to 2007.Dr. Varian received his SB degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA in mathematics andPhD in economics from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has taught courses at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world. He is a fellow of theGuggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy ofArts and Sciences. He was Co-Editor of the American Economic Review from 19871990 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu, Finland and theUniversity of Karlsruhe, Germany.Howard SHELANSKIHoward Shelanski is a partner in Davis Polk’s Litigation Department in WashingtonDC and a Professor of Law at Georgetown University. He is one of the nation’s leading authorities on antitrust and regulation, with high-level experience at the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, and in the Executive branch of government. Mr. Shelanski served as Administrator of the WhiteHouse Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2013 to 2017. Previously,he was Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, where he supervised economicanalysis and advised the Commission on economic policy matters. From 2009 to2011, he served as the Bureau’s Deputy Director. Before joining the FTC and theGeorgetown Faculty, Mr. Shelanski was a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he co-directed the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology from 2000 to 2008. He was Chief Economist of the Federal CommunicationsCommission from 1999 to 2000, and a Senior Economist for the President’s Councilof Economic Advisers at the White House from 1998 to 1999. Mr. Shelanski servedas a law clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Louis H.Pollak of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and JudgeStephen F. Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.16Wi-Fi Access: Harvard Guest

Jonathan B. BAKERJonathan B. Baker is Research Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. He specializes in the areas of antitrust and economic regulation and has published widely in the fields of antitrust law, policy, and economics.Among other acknowledgements, he has received the Federal Trade Commission’s Award for Distinguished Service and the Jerry S. Cohen Award for AntitrustScholarship.Professor Baker served as the Chief Economist of the Federal CommunicationsCommission from 2009 to 2011, and as the Director of the Bureau of Economics atthe Federal Trade Commission from 1995 to 1998. Previously, he worked as a SeniorEconomist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Special Assistant tothe Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division ofthe Department of Justice, Assistant Professor at Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck Schoolof Business Administration, and Attorney Advisor to the Acting Chairman of theFederal Trade Commission, in addition to his private practice in antitrust .Baker holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a JD from HarvardUniversity. He is the author of The Antitrust Paradigm, the co-author of widely-used antitrust casebook, a past Editorial Chair of Antitrust Law Journal, anda former member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section ofAntitrust Law.Susan A. CREIGHTONSusan Creighton is co-chair of the firm’s antitrust practice. Susan’s practice focuses on merger review, government conduct investigations, and antitrust litigationand counseling. Representative matters include serving as lead outside counsel forGoogle in the Federal Trade Commission’s search investigation of the company, andrepresenting Netflix in connection with the Justice Department’s investigation ofthe proposed Comcast/TWC merger.Susan was named “Lawyer of the Year” by Global Competition Review in 2013, andwas one of The National Law Journal’s “Outstanding Women Lawyers” in 2015. Shehas testified before the Antitrust Modernization Commission, the Federal TradeCommission, and the Senate on antitrust-related issues. She also has written a number of widely cited articles, including on issues related to mergers, intellectual property, and unilateral conduct.From 2003 through the end of 2005, Susan served at the Federal Trade Commissionas Director of the Bureau of Competition. From 2001 to 2003, she served as Deputy Director of the Bureau under then-Director Joe Simmons. Prior to joining the FTC, Susanwrote the white paper for Netscape that is credited with triggering the Department ofJustice’s investigation and eventual suit against Microsoft for illegal monopolization.Susan has served in a variety of leadership roles within the firm, including on theboard of directors.Makan DELRAHIM firm, she was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra DayO’Connor. She also served as a law clerk to Federal District Judge Pamela Ann Rymer.Wi-Fi Login: Harvard Guest17

Speakers’ BiosMakan DELRAHIMMakan Delrahim was confirmed on September 27, 2017, as Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. Mr. Delrahim previously served as Deputy Assistantto the President and Deputy White House Counsel. Mr. Delrahim’s rich antitrustbackground covers the full range of industries, issues, and institutions touchedupon by the work of the Antitrust Division. He is a former partner in the Los Angeles office of a national law firm. He served in the Antitrust Division from 2003to 2005 as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, overseeing the Appellate, ForeignCommerce, and Legal Policy sections. During that time, he played an integral rolein building the Antitrust Division’s engagement with its international counterpartsand was involved in civil and criminal matters. He has served on the Attorney General’s Task Force on Intellectual Property and as Chairman of the Merger WorkingGroup of the International Competition Network. Mr. Delrahim was also a Commissioner on the Antitrust Modernization Commission from 2004 to 2007. Earlier in hiscareer, Mr. Delrahim served as antitrust counsel, and later as the Staff Director andChief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.Philip MARSDENDr. Philip Marsden is Deputy Chair of the Bank of England’s Enforcement DecisionMaking Committee, and a case decision maker at the Financial Conduct Authority,the Payment Systems Regulator and OFGEM. In September 2018, the Chancellorappointed Philip to the Treasury’s Digital Competition Experts Panel. In November2018, Philip also affiliated with Charles River Associates International as a SeniorAdvisor on policy and strategy issues. In June 2019 he was appointed to the government’s Open Finance Advisory Group, advising the FCA on how to extend OpenBanking to other financial services and sectors.For ten years until October 2018, Philip held various roles at the UK competitionauthority, first as member of the Board of the Office of Fair Trading, then as Inquiry Chair and Senior Director, Case Decision Groups, at the Competition and Markets Authority, where he decided on Phase II mergers, market investigations andantitrust cases, post-Statement of Objections.Philip is also Professor of Law and Economics at the College of Europe, Bruges,teaching the core LL.M. competition course and is co-founder and General Editor of the European Competition Journal, and the Oxford Competition Law casereporter series. A prosecutor early on in his career, for the last 30 years Philip hasalso acted as independent counsel, specialising in advice to firms and governments. In private practice he worked at major law firms in Toronto, Tokyo and London. Philip earned his doctorate in law from the University of Oxford.18Wi-Fi Access: Harvard Guest

Reiko AOKIReiko Aoki is Commissioner of Japan Fair Trade Commission. She has conductedresearch and published on economics of patents, patent pools, standards, innovation and intergenerational political economy. She had academic positions at theOhio State University, SUNY Stony Brook, University of Auckland and HitotsubashiUniversity

Washingtonian's 2009 and 2011 Tech Titans list. Mr. Black received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Muhlenberg College and his Juris Doctor degree from the American University Washington College of Law, where he won honors in the field of international law. He previously served as CCIA's Vice-Pres - ident and General Counsel.