Thrilled to host Panos Delimatsis Harm Schepel Anna Beckers in our conference, where I spoke about new mandatory Sustainability Reporting Standards and the tension between Financial/Double Materiality in their development as part of my ‘ReValue’ MarieSkłodowskaCurie project at CEPRI - Centre for Private Governance.

The Commission welcomes the guidance on the interoperability between the European and international sustainability reporting standards, which was published today by EFRAG and the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) of the IFRS Foundation. 1/4

#ESRS

Female economics Nobel prize winners are rare sightings 🔍and when you have two of them at once it's magic! 🪄
LSE & STICERD were delighted to host Professors Esther Duflo and Claudia Goldin for each of their public lectures this evening 👑💪 #LSEEconomics #econtwitter

Heading to ⁦CEPRI - Centre for Private Governance⁩ in beautiful Copenhagen where I will be talking about #TBT , #standards #PTAs and #ESOs #legitimacy . In good company with ⁦Harm Schepel⁩ and Hans Micklitz as keynotes. Thanks to Vibe Ulfbeck and ⁦Rodrigo Vallejo Garretón⁩ for the kind invite!

Is regulation driving Europe to irrelevance? Yes, according to the chief executive of Ericsson on.ft.com/4blc1s5

🚨 AI Policy Alert: The German Federal Office for Information Security publishes the report 'Generative AI Models - Opportunities and Risks for Industry and Authorities.' Quotes & comments:

'LLMs are trained based on huge text corpora. The origin of these texts and their quality…

The energy transition relies on new technologies that need various minerals. But getting these minerals can harm indigenous people. Stéphanie Bijlmakers is looking into how companies can be held responsible for this. Read more about her research: tilburguniversity.edu/about/schools/…

TILEC 20th anniversary conf was something! Stellar lineup & perfect organization. From #competition policy challenges to #innovation (incl #SEPs & #FRAND ) to #AI , the menu was full. Humbled to have chaired a panel w Profs van Damme, Larouche & Hancher on TILEC roots & future ☺️

Check this out, as our own Stéphanie Bijlmakers explains the regulatory challenges of the #energy #transition !

Happy 20th birthday to TILEC🥳 great #anniversary conference & plenty of food for thought so far!

Martin Snoep, Autoriteit Consument & Markt | ACM Chair, closing the first day of the TILEC 20th anniversary conference, discussing the evolution of the Dutch #competition policy and the perils of excessive corporate power… and some flattering words on TILEC’s policy impact! #TILEC20

In an analysis of Stanford University economist Mordecai Kurz's theory of 'technological market power,' Bill Janeway considers the dynamics that allow Big Tech monopolies to become effectively unchallengeable. bit.ly/3xAunq5

Oh, my… #KPMGscandal

Join the TILEC celebration this a Thursday and Friday, the lineup looks fantastic! #economicgoverncance #competition #innovation

This amazing The European Journal of Social Science Research special issue on European #standardization and the role of ETSI is almost ready to take off! Congrats to the editors, TILEC extramural fellow, Olia Kanevskaia and our own Stéphanie Bijlmakers and Panos Delimatsis and to all contributors!

Great #PhD opportunity, you can rarely get any luckier when it comes to PhD mentoring!

Now that #Boeing is trendy for the wrong reasons, another piece of great journalism by John Oliver #crisis #freeriding #lobbying #capture

International Law and Social Science people: Apply for ASIL interdisciplinary works-in-progress  workshop September 27-28 2024. Applications due April 15. Hosted by @ASIL karen alter Northwestern Law Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Learn more at: bit.ly/3uY1tQ1

Apple's iPhone sales tumble 24% in China, its biggest Asian market, losing out to Huawei, according to Counterpoint Research data trib.al/4qQfLUW

Big hit from Luxembourg to the #ESOs business model. After #Stichting it was the only reasonable result. No copyright protection for #mandatory #standards that have become part of EU law via reference! Access to doc Reg proved to be a powerful democratic instrument!