Andrea Appella is a leading international expert of competition/regulatory law, artificial intelligence and the intersection with intellectual property law in the media/tech industries, where he held senior in-house positions in international groups. He is currently Associate General Counsel, EMEA at OpenAI and a Visiting Professor at Kings College Dickson Poon School of Law in London, where he teaches the course “Competition and Intellectual Property in the Media Industry: Law and Practice” in the LLM program. Previously, Andrea worked for Netflix (Head of Global Competition, 2019-2022), News Corporation/21st Century Fox (Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, 2009-2019), Time Warner Europe (Associate General Counsel, 2003-2008), Warner Bros (1999-2002) and MTV Europe (1998-1999). He began his career as a solicitor at Herbert Smith (1994-1997), where he returned as Consultant for Global TMT and Competition, Regulatory and Trade in 2023. He is also a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centro Sperimentale Cinema, a Director of Cinecitta’s training programme “Next Generation Lawyers”, a member of the Innovation, Regulation and Competition Policy Centre (ICPC) at the Universita’ Europea in Rome and a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) to the International Competition Network (ICN) appointed by the UK Competition and Markets Authority.