Antonin ARLANDIS is economist at Coe-Rexecode where he works on digital economy. Before joining Coe-Rexecode he was Ph.D. candidate at France Telecom – Orange Group. He was also visiting researcher at the Columbia Institute of Tele Information. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master in Economics from University of Montpellier 1. His main research interests are digital economics, industrial organization, regulation and
competition policy, firms' strategies and macroeconomics.
Vincent BONNEAU is Senior Manager, Head of Internet Services Practice at IDATE. He is in charge of issues relating to the IT and Internet services industries' impact on the telecommunications market's offers, consumption and business strategies. His assignments focus on technological and marketing innovations in these two industries. Before coming to IDATE, Vincent worked as the "Internet Software and Technologies" attaché to the French Trade Commission (DREE)
in San Francisco, in addition to having gained strategic operational and marketing experience working for Noos, Wanadoo and France Télécom in Paris. He is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique (1997) and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (2002), and holds a Masters Degree in New Technologies Management from the HEC business school (2002).
v.bonneau@idate.org
Marc BOURREAU is Professor of Economics at Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France. He is also a research associate at the laboratory of industrial economics (LEI) of the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST). He obtained a master's degree in engineering science from Telecom ParisTech and a Ph.D. degree in economics from Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas. His research interests lie in the field of industrial organization, with a strong emphasis on telecommunications. He has published several articles on these topics in leading economic journals. His recent research focuses on the relation between regulation and investment in the telecommunications industry, and innovation dynamics in the payment
industry.
Valérie-Anne BLEYEN was, at the time of writing, a Ph.D. student at theVrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), Belgium, at the Department of Economics, Social and Political Sciences and Solvay Business School. Her research focused on digital goods and online payment instruments. She was also involved in an interdisciplinary research project on Flemish E-Publishing Trends (FLEET). She is currently working as a senior researcher at the Center for Studies on Media, Information and Telecommunication (SMIT) of the Free University of Brussels and her research domain includes e-publishing, 3D
animation film, public broadcasting and online payment and revenue models. Stephane CIRIANI holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University Paris II Assas, where he has been a research assistant for two years. He then joined France Telecom Orange Labs in 2006 as an Engineer Economist, and is currently assistant director of economic studies at Coe-Rexecode where he works on the links between ICT and economic growth.
Ernesto M. FLORES-ROUX (B.S.
in Mathematics, National Autonomous University of Mexico – UNAM; master studies in economics at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México – ITAM; Ph.D. in Statistics at The University of Chicago) worked in McKinsey & Company, Inc., a leading consulting firm, until 2004; he was the partner in charge of the Rio de Janeiro Office and a core member of the Americas Telecommunications Practice. During this time, he worked extensively with the governments of Mexico (1995-1996) and Brazil (1996-2000) in their efforts to restructure and open to competition their telecommunications sector. In 2004 he joined Telefónica, initially as Director of Marketing and Strategy in Mexico, and later in various leadership positions in Peru, China (Beijing), and Brazil. In 2008 he joined the Mexican Ministry of Communications and Transports (SCT) as Chief of Staff of the Undersecretary of Communications. In 2009 he became a researcher at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE – Mexico), focusing his work on telecom public policy issued. He has published extensively in industry and general journals (
DIRSI,
IMCO,
Plano Editorial, Forbes
Brasil,
Teletime,
McKinsey Quarterly,
Gazeta Mercantil, Valor
Económico,
Revista Ahciet, among
others).
For more than fifteen years,
Yves GASSOT has been at the head of IDATE (
www.idate.org), an institute that has established itself as one of the leading research centres in Europe concerned with the telecommunications, Internet and media industries. In this position, he has taken part in numerous studies of the various markets and the strategies being pursued in the telecommunications sector. He is on the panel of several expert committees, including the Conseil Général des Technologies de l'Information , ITS
and the advisory Committees of the PTC and Iris Capital. He was special adviser of the European Commissioner of the Information Society during the last regulatory framework review. He serves as Executive Director of the journal
Communications & Strategies and is scientific head of the annual DigiWorld
Yearbook and DigiWorld Summit. With a background as DPLG architect, he is a
graduate of the Institute of Political Studies, Paris (3rd Cycle). y.gassot@idate.org
Monika E. HARTMANN is Senior Market Infrastructure Expert at the European Central Bank. Her work focuses on integration and innovation of retail payments in Europe. She holds a university degree in Industrial Engineering and Management (1996) and a Ph.D. in Economics (2000) from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. From 2000 until 2003 she analysed long-term macroeconomic trends at HypoVereinsbank (now UniCredit Group). She did a two-year business training at Deutsche Bank (1988-1990). Since the mid-19990s she has participated in various payments-related research projects, especially
studying the evolution of payment services and their regulatory impact.
Peter LYONS is Vice President for business development with Techpolis, Inc. a mobile telecommunications & technology management consulting firm. Prior to joining Techpolis, Peter was an equity research analyst with New York-based institutional brokerage, Oscar Gruss & Son, Inc. since 2006,
where he covered emerging markets telecom, media, and technology sectors between 2006 - 2010. Peter began his career in the late 1990's as a project manager in Motorola's Mobile Commerce Core Solutions Center and co-authored one of the Company's first mobile commerce related patent applications in 2001.
Peter has a bachelor's degree in Economics from Purdue University and a master's degree in Telecommunications Systems from DePaul
University.
Judith MARISCAL (Ph.D. LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT in Austin) is full Professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Econmicas (CIDE, Mexico) where she is Director of the Telecommunications Research Program, Telecom-CIDE. She is a member of the Steering Committee for DIRSI, a research network on ICT policy for development in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as Social Witness for Transparency International Chapter Mexico and member of the Board of Advisors for Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC). Her current research focuses on ICT regulatory and public policies. She has authored two books:
Unfinished Business: Telecommunications Reform in Mexico, by Praeger Press in 2000, and Digital
Poverty: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives, by ITDG in 2007 coauthored with Hernan
Galperin. She has authored numerous articles on telecommunications policy and regulation in leading journals such as Information
Technologies and International
Development, Telecommunications
Policy and Latin American Studies.
Sophie PERNET-LUBRANO is Senior Consultant at IDATE. She is specialised in demand analysis, particularly in the area of consumer applications. Sophie also contributes her expertise in supply analysis, notably companies' Internet service strategies. Her assignments focus on various aspects of the telecom industry: Internet, media, landline and mobile telephony. Prior to joining IDATE, Sophie was an economic consultant for B.I.P.E., where she was in charge of telecom market monitoring. She is an economist, with a post-graduate degree from ESLSCA (Ecole Supérieure Libre des
Sciences Commerciales Appliquées).s.pernet@idate.orgPaul N. RAPPOPORT is Associate Professor of Economics at Temple University.
He has over 25 years of experience in data analysis, modeling and statistical assessment. Dr. Rappoport's current research interests include:
modeling consumer's willingness to pay; the construction of internet metrics; assessing the Digital Divide; specifying and modeling business broadband; forecasting internet demand and measuring the
nature of network externalities.
Geomina TURLEA joined the IS Unit in April 2005 as a Research Fellow working on a research training project entitled 'R&D in the ICT sector: Situation, outlook and impact on the European ICT sector'. She has a Ph.D. ('Econometrics of short and volatile time series') from the Romanian Academy of Sciences (2003). Geomina was previously employed by the Institute for World Economy in Bucharest, Romania and has worked with various national and international institutions and organisations in academic research projects. She has also carried out consultancy for policy makers and private agents. Her main interests are in macromodelling and applied econometrics, particularly as regards the knowledge
economy and endogenous growth.
Leo VAN HOVE is Professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) and Vesalius College, where he teaches courses in monetary economics, network economics, and e commerce. His current research interests include currency usage, demand for
e-money, and e-publishing. htpp://www.vub.ac.be/ACCO/
Marianne VERDIER is an Assistant Professor of economics at the University Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense. She received a Ph.D. from Telecom ParisTech in economics and has worked as an expert for the payment card scheme "Le Groupement des Cartes Bancaires, CB". The subject of her dissertation was "interchange fees and pricing of payment card systems". She has published in several journals about interchange fees, such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Economic Surveys, International Journal of Industrial Organization, and COMMUNICATION&STRATEGIES.
Marianne VERDIER is in charge of mobile transaction services payment, contactless, authentication, etc.) within France Telecom - Orange Group. After graduating from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, he started his career in the UK working on very large defence communication projects. He then joined a consultancy as a Practice Director. His last position was Technical Director at a French interbank organisation
specialised in electronic payment systems.
