KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Luigi Lonardo is an Associate Professor of European Law at the Luxembourg Centre for European Law, University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on EU external relations, foreign, security and defence policy, and the interaction between law and geopolitics. He is the author of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy After Lisbon: Between Law and Geopolitics (Springer, 2022) and the forthcoming book Russia’s 2022 War Against Ukraine and the EU’s Foreign Policy Reaction: Context, Diplomacy, and Law (Palgrave Macmillan). He has previously held academic positions at University College Cork, King’s College London, the University of Westminster, and Sciences Po in Paris.

Jasminka Pecotić Kaufman is a Professor of Law specializing in competition and business law, and currently a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the European University Institute. Her research focuses on competition law enforcement, Europeanization, and institutional effectiveness in post-socialist and EU Member States, with a strong empirical orientation. She has published extensively in leading international journals, co-edited and co-authored key books in the field, and plays an active role in global competition law networks. She is also the founder of the Šoljan Competition Law and Policy Conference series and a leading expert advising institutions on competition policy and enforcement.