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CompLaw: Digital Challenges
October 2025
Brussels, Belgium
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Simeon Thornton
Economic Director at Ofcom
Speaker

Profile

Simeon Thornton is currently a Director of Economics at Ofcom, where he leads work on a variety of projects including online news, the Media Act, digital markets, net neutrality and the mobile sector. Before joining Ofcom, he was a Director at the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, where he led a range of work relating to online platforms, including market studies into digital advertising and mobile ecosystems, and a Competition Act case into Google’s Privacy Sandbox changes to the Chrome browser. He was previously Chief Economist at the Department of Energy and Climate Change and also worked for the OFT. Before that, he worked in the private sector as a senior consultant with NERA Economic Consulting.

Agenda Sessions

  • A Look to the UK: Comparing the DMCC to the DMA

    11:30
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