Konstantina Bania

Konstantina Bania is a partner at Geradin Partners where she advises on cutting-edge competition and regulatory matters pertaining to digital markets, including the implementation of the Digital Markets Act, the interplay between competition law and data privacy, and the reform of media/broadcasting regulations. Konstantina is also a senior lecturer at Brunel University where she teaches competition law and online platform regulation. In 2021, she was appointed as expert advisor to the Hellenic Competition Commission for the purposes of its E-Commerce Sector Inquiry. Previously, Konstantina was senior counsel at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

While at the EBU, Konstantina led two expert groups that focus on online platform regulation, the reform of the EU competition rules to make them fit for digital markets, and the funding and remit of
public service media. She has guided the EBU’s work on the platform-to-business Regulation and the Digital Markets Act proposal, regularly engaging with EU policymakers in those areas.
Konstantina holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI). Her dissertation, which explores the role of media pluralism in the enforcement of EU competition law, received the 2016 Concurrences PhD thesis award (an annual Europe-wide competition aimed at selecting the most innovative thesis in the field of law and economics). 

She publishes regularly in her areas of expertise and has received prizes and fellowships from numerous institutions, including the Academic Society for Competition Law, the Fulbright Commission, the Competition Law Scholars Forum, the Institute for European Studies, and the Getulio Vargas Foundation. She has been a guest lecturer at various leading institutions, such as the EUI, the College of Europe, Queen Mary University, the University of Lausanne, and Bocconi University. Konstantina is a native Greek and speaks English, Italian, Spanish and French.