The DMA's Brussels Effect
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) of the European Union (EU) is a landmark regulation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech companies. This panel explores the potential for the DMA's reach to extend beyond the EU's borders, producing a "Brussels effect" that influences digital market regulation in Brazil, Turkey, and India. We will examine how the DMA's ex-ante and ex-post regulatory framework might reshape these countries' own approaches to competition and consumer protection in the digital sphere. The panel will further delve into the question of whether the regulatory genie, once released by the DMA, can be put back in the bottle – or the phenomenon is here to stay. As other countries adopt similar measures, could this lead to a more globally coordinated approach to governing digital markets? How will this affect Big Tech companies? This session will be of interest to policymakers, legal professionals, academics, and industry representatives concerned with the evolving landscape of digital market regulation and the potential for international convergence.
Dario Oliveira Neto is the Director of the Global Antitrust Institute’s (GAI) Latin America Competition Advocacy Program. Prior to joining the GAI, Mr. Dario Oliveira Neto was the Head of the Technical Advisory Unit to the Office of the President of the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) —the Brazilian Competition Authority. In that position, he supervised a team of advisors and interns to assist the president in producing opinions and judgements in the cases at CADE’s Administrative Tribunal (antitrust cases such as mergers, cartels, and unilateral conducts). He also assisted with CADE’s administrative, institutional, and representational affairs, both nationally and internationally. Also at CADE, he has served as an Advisor to the Office of the General Superintendent.
Lilla Nóra Kiss is a senior policy analyst at ITIF, and a Post-Graduate Visiting Research Fellow and an adjunct faculty at the Antonin Scalia Law School of George Mason University. During her post-doctoral research, she undertakes a comparative analysis of how the US and the EU approach regulating social media. In addition, as an adjunct faculty member at Scalia Law School, she teaches Antitrust Law. Lilla completed her JD in 2015 at the University of Miskolc, Hungary. During her doctoral studies, she undertook the General and Juridical Mediator course and immersed herself in several international law programs (the Regional Academy on the United Nations (RAUN); the Academy of European Law (AEL) summer schools at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy).
Hanna Stakheyeva is an Assistant Professor at the Bogazici University (Istanbul, Turkey), conducts research into competition law matters with a particular focus on the EU, Ukraine and Turkey. Previously worked as a competition lawyer at ACTECON (Istanbul, Turkey), Baker & McKenzie (Kyiv, Ukraine) and King & Wood Mallesons (Brussels, Belgium).
Pritika Marguerite Magima is a Postgraduate Researcher and Tech Policy Analyst at Georgetown Center on National Security. She is a policy Professional with experience in U.S. and global policy in the technology sector wherein she has worked at the intersection of technology industries and regulation/policy implications. With over six years of legal experience in the technology, sports, and hardware industries, she provides policy and legal analysis on emerging issues and trends affecting the digital sector.
Aurelien Portuese is a Research Professor and the founding director of the GW Competition & Innovation at the George Washington University. Professor Portuese is also a Researcher at the Farhi Innovation Lab of the College de France of the University of Paris (PSL), and a Special Editor of the Antitrust Law Journal of the American Bar Association. Professor Portuese is also a Consultant at the World Bank.
Mónika Mercz is a visiting researcher at The GW Competition and Innovation Lab in Washington D.C., dealing with issues of how AI can be used for child protection efforts. She is a junior researcher at the Public Law Center of Mathias Corvinus Collegium Foundation. She is completing her PhD studies in Law and Political Sciences at the Doctoral School of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, where her research topic examines how constitutional identity manifests in essential state functions of the Member States of the European Union. She is a founding editor of Constitutional Discourse, leading the Privacy & Data Protection column.