Alexandre de Streel

Academic Director & Professor of European Law
CERRE & University of Namur

Alexandre de Streel is academic director of the digital-research program at the Brussels think-tank Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), professor of European law at the University of Namur, and visiting professor at the College of Europe (Bruges) and SciencesPo Paris.

His main research areas are regulation and competition policy in the digital economy (telecommunications, platforms and data) as well as the legal issues raised by the developments of artificial intelligence. He regularly advises the European Union and international organizations on digital regulation.

He sits in the scientific committees of the Knight-Georgetown Institute (US), the European University Institute-Centre for a Digital Society (Italy) and the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (Germany).

Previously, Alexandre held visiting positions at New York University Law School, the European University Institute in Florence, Panthéon-Assas (Singapore campus), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the University of Louvain. He also worked for the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union, and the European Commission. He has also been the chair of the expert group on the online platform economy, advising the European Commission.