Maria Luisa is a competition lawyer by background with expertise in media, telecoms, and digital sectors. In the past, she worked as a competition associate at Bonelli Erede law firm and then spent 5 years in the academic and policy environment, dealing with regulatory reforms linked to the disruption led by the internet, and training judges and enforcers on competition, telecoms and media laws. She currently leads ARTICLE 19’s law and policy work concerning digital markets, focusing on using economic regulation and competition law and policy to advance the protection of free expression online. Maria Luisa holds an LLM from the College of Europe in Bruges and a PhD Tilburg Law School.