João Vieira dos Santos, Legal Advisor, CMVM (Portuguese Securities Market Commission)

Hanne Juncher, Head of Department, Justice and Legal Co-operation, Council of Europe

Professor Marta Pertegás, First Secretary, Hague Conference on Private International Law

Professor Avv. Luca Di Donna, European Private Law and Cooperation, University of Rome La Sapienza and Studio Legale Professor Avv. Guido Alpa 

Professor Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Department of Private Law, University of Oslo

Professor Christopher Millard, Professor of Privacy and Information Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London and Head of the Cloud Legal Project

Professor Bob Wessels, Legal Counsel and Advisor, Professor of International Insolvency Law, University of Leiden

Sarah Garvey, PSL Counsel and Head Litigation Know How & Training, Allen & Overy LLP

Katri Havu, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki 

Professor Avvocato Guido Alpa, then President of the Italian Bar Council, Professor of Civil law, University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Director of its Masters in European Private Law and Cooperation, member of the European Private Law Committee of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) and President of the Association of Italian Civil Law

Professor Gerhard Dannemann, M.A. (Oxon), Chair, Redaction Committee and Chair, Terminology Group, European Research Group on Existing EU Private Law (Acquis Group), Professor of English Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Door Tenant, 3 Pump Court Chambers London, Fellow, Institute of European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford

Rosemary Jay, Senior Attorney, Hunton & Williams LLP, London, former Head of the Legal Office of the Data Protection Registrar (now the Information Commissioner), data protection specialist, author of Sweet & Maxwell's Data Protection Law & Practice and has worked with the Council of Europe and the European Commission on privacy issues in Europe and the Commonwealth Secretariat in West Africa

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Anita Bapat, Associate, Hunton & Williams LLP, London, specialist in European data protection compliance, employee and customer data issues and electronic commerce, with extensive experience in data protection and privacy legislation as former government lawyer specialising in information and human rights law, both contributors to Hunton & Williams LLP Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

Sam de Silva, Partner and Head of the IT and Outsourcing practice, Penningtons Manches LLP, Oxford, Chair of the Law Society's Technology and Law Reference Group, specialist in technology and telecommunication projects including outsourcing and public sector transformation projects, admitted to practice law in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, Associate Lecturer, the University of Surrey and member of the Global Board of Trustees of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS)

Professor Christopher Millard, Professor of Privacy and Information Law at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, Editor of Cloud Computing Law, Oxford University Press, leads the Cloud Legal Research Project, on key legal and regulatory aspects of cloud computing, Consultant, Bristows LLP, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford, Solicitor England and Wales, fellow and former Chair of the Society for Computers & Law, past-Chair of the Technology Law Committee of the International Bar Association and founding editor of the Oxford International Journal of Law and Information Technology and of International Data Privacy Law

Dr Eleonora Rosati, Research Associate on copyright issues facing digitization, University of Cambridge,  Deputy Editor of the Oxford Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice and Italian qualified lawyer

Pierre-Henri Conac, Professor of Commercial and Company Law, the University of Luxembourg, was member of the Reflection Group on the Future of EU Company Law and the European Model Company Act, managing editor of the Revue des Sociétés (Dalloz), co-editor of the European Company and Financial Law Review and member the EU's financial markets regulator, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consultative Stakeholder Group

Dr Thomas Meyding, Partner, CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart, specialist in national and international inter-company transactions and advice on company law

Professor Marco de Benito, IE Law School, Madrid; Corresponding Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation; Visiting Scholar at Yale Law School; has practiced law at Uría Menéndez

Dr Justin Borg-Barthet, Lecturer, University of Aberdeen Law School and qualified as an Advocate in Malta

Aleksandar Pulejkov, Enforcement Agent from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, former associate in the District Commercial Court in Skopje and the Supreme Commercial Court of Macedonia, one of the first appointed Enforcement Agents in the Republic of Macedonia after the Law on Enforcement came into force on 8 June 2006

High-level overview of rationale, measures and priorities

Diana Wallis, former MEP, Vice President of the European Parliament

Idaira Robayna-Alfonso, Legal Assistant, Internal market and enforcement, Regulatory policy, Directorate General Enterprise and Industry, European Commission

Matthew Gough, Partner, Eversheds LLP

Diana Wallis, former MEP, Vice President of the European Parliament

Jacqueline Minor, Director Consumer Affairs, Directorate General for Health and Consumers, European Commission

Maria Cristina Russo, Head of Unit, Financial Services and Redress and Paul Widger, Policy Officer, Directorate General for Health and Consumers

Alexander Layton QC, 20 Essex Street Chambers, former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, former Chairman of the Bar European Group and the British-German Jurists Association, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and member of the Commercial Bar Association (COMBAR) and the London Common Law and Commercial Bar Association and general editor of European Civil Practice

Sarah Garvey, PSL Counsel, Allen & Overy LLP

Gerard McDermott QC, Outer Temple Chambers, specialising in catastrophic injuries, former President of the American Counsel Association, former Leader of the European Circuit of the Bar and member of the American Bar Association

Stephen Mason, Senior Partner and founder of Travlaw solicitors and former Chair of Law Society of England and Wales Civil Justice Committee