Competition Expert Pierre Régibeau to Speak at Conference on the Future of EU Competition Law
Event: The Future of EU Competition Law: Regulating at Machine Speed? Date: 2 November 2026 Host: International Center for Law & Economics (ICLE) and University of Liège Institute for EU Legal Studies Location: Brussels, Belgium Times: 2:00–6:00 p.m. (CET)
Analysis Group Competition Expert Pierre Régibeau will speak at The Future of EU Competition Law: Regulating at Machine Speed? The conference will examine how EU competition law should respond to advances in AI. The event will explore whether merger control can or should reach AI partnerships and “acquihire” arrangements, as well as how Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the Digital Markets Act can address competition concerns in rapidly evolving AI markets.
Associated People
Pierre Régibeau
Competition ExpertDr. Régibeau, the former chief competition economist at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), is an expert in industrial organization, with a particular focus on technology-intensive industries, intellectual property (IP) rights, and competition policy. His areas of specialty include the economics of digital platforms and innovation, vertical restraints and abuse of dominance, and international trade. His consulting experience includes advising on a wide variety of cases before courts and competition authorities throughout Europe, North America, Asia, South Africa and Australia.
Dr. Régibeau has held teaching and research positions at institutions that include the MIT Sloan School of Management, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and a number of European universities. He has published extensively in leading journals and was a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Industrial Economics for 12 years. For more than a decade, he has taught a course on the intersection of IP rights and competition policy at the CRESSE Summer School on Competition Policy and Regulation. Dr. Régibeau has also served as a member of the Economic Advising Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission. From 2019 to 2023, he served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission.