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Eduardo Prieto Kessler is Director at the Competition Direction in the newly created Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC) in Spain. He holds a law degree by the University Complutense of Madrid and belongs to the Spanish administration body of Economists of the State, a public administration body specialized in economics. After a period at the Spanish Embassy in Seoul, as Commercial Attaché- he served as Deputy Director General for Restrictive Practices at the NCA between 1999 and 2004. In 2004 he moved to the private sector, working as Senior Consultant for the American economics consultancy company NERA, where during 4 years he advised companies on competition matters. He then turned back to the Spanish economic administration in 2009 where he was posted as Economic and Trade Counsellor at Spanish Embassy in Bucharest. After a year working as advisor to the Director of Investigation at the CNC (Comisión Nacional de Competencia), he was appointed Director of the Competition Direction in October 2013. Nelson Jung is a qualified lawyer in Germany as well as a Solicitor in England and Wales. Having qualified as a lawyer in Germany in 2002, Nelson completed an LLM at University College London, specialising in European Law. He then worked at the European Competition and Regulation practice group at Clifford Chance LLP in London before, as a Senior Associate, he moved to the Office of Fair Trading in 2010. Nelson is currently the Director of Mergers Group at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and, prior to 1 April 2014, was the Director of Mergers at the Office of Fair Trading. He previously also held the position of Competition Enforcement Director at the Office of Fair Trading, where he focused on enforcing UK competition law under the Competition Act 1998. Ulrich von Koppenfels is a case handler at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. Currently he is a member of the mergers case support and policy unit, responsible for coordinating merger cases (in particular in the area of remedies) and developing policy initiatives in the field of merger control (such as the 2013 Simplification Package and the 2014 White Paper on a possible reform of the EU Merger Regulation). Previously he served in DG Competition’s units responsible for antitrust and mergers case support, for antitrust enforcement in the energy and environmental sectors as well as in operational units in charge of merger cases. Before joining the European Commission, Ulrich von Koppenfels worked for the German Bundeskartellamt (national competition authority) as a case handler and in the legal department. 9