IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2025

Cristina Caffarra is an antitrust expert economist who was head of European competition at Charles River Associates for over 20 years — leading large teams and giving expert testimony in Europe and across the world on some of the most high-profile cases of the past two decades. Moving on from consulting, she co-founded the Competition Research Policy Network at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, where she curates and hosts multiple policy discussions. She has been a vocal contributor — speaking and writing extensively — to the global debate on antitrust and regulation of digital markets. She has shaped the European conversation around the role of antitrust as a tool of broader economic policy by advocating for the integration of antitrust and data protection, and encouraging new thinking around how antitrust can contribute to equitable economic growth. She hosts and curates a celebrated annual conference in Brussels on antitrust and the political economy. She is now the lead of the EuroStack Industry Initiative in Europe. She is an honorary professor at UCL in London.

Carl Öhman is an assistant professor in political science at Uppsala University, Sweden. He earned his Ph.D. in 2020 from the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Luciano Floridi. His research spans several topics, including the politics and ethics of artificial intelligence, deepfakes and digital remains. It has been covered by media outlets such as The New York Times, The Economist, BBC and TIME Magazine. In 2020, Öhman was named the U.K.’s No. 1 early career researcher in the arts and humanities by Scopus.