Gregor Langus is Vice President of Cornerstone Research’s Antitrust and Competition team in Brussels. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, specializing in competition policy. Dr. Langus has extensive experience in matters related to innovation, digital markets, and intellectual property, with a focus on information technology (IT) markets, online platforms, standard essential patents (SEPs), and copyright issues. He has provided economic advice in high-profile antitrust investigations, and advised on a number of complex merger reviews. Dr. Langus is the lead author of a series of high-profile reports in the field of regulation in telecommunications and in relation to copyright for the European Commission (DG Connect and DG Markt). He has been published in leading field journals, such as the Journal of Industrial Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economics Letters and the Journal of Competition Law and Economics. Before joining Cornerstone Research, Dr. Langus founded CompetitionSphere, a policy group based in Brussels. Previously, he worked as Director at E.CA, Senior Vice President at Compass Lexecon, and as member of the Chief Economist’s Team (CET) in DG Competition at the European Commission. He has previous consultancy experience and was also a post-doctoral researcher and a lecturer in Microeconomics at the Tilburg University School of Economics.