Axel Desmedt

President of the Belgian Competition Authority

Schaerbeek, Brussels Region, Belgium

About

Experience

  • President at Belgian Competition Authority
    Mar 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Law & Criminology Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
    Jun 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Executive Board Member at BIPT
    Nov 2009 - Dec 2023 · 14 yrs 2 mos

    BIPT is the National Regulatory Authority (NRA) for Post and Telecommunications in Belgium and Media regulator in Brussels (approx. 230 staff members). The executive board of the BIPT ("the Council") are 4 members, appointed for a 6-years tenure. The Belgian Government appointed me in 2009 as an executive board member and subsequently re-appointed me in 2016 for a second tenure of 6 years. I managed the following departments during my mandate(s): - Technology & Spectrum, Legal, HR (2009-2012) - Telecoms & Media markets, Legal, HR, International & Communication (Jan-Sept. 2013) - Consumers, Postal market, Legal, HR (Sept. 2013- Dec 2016) - Telecommunications & Media markets (market regulation), Legal, HR (Dec 2016-present)

  • Guest Professor at Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
    Sep 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Course: European Electronic Communications Law (LL.M. Program)

  • Maître de conférences at Université catholique de Louvain
    Sep 2015 - Sep 2020 · 5 yrs 1 mo

    Regulation: Theory and Practice