Carlota Reyners Fontana is a Director in the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission. She is in charge of the enforcement of antitrust, merger and state aid rules in the field of information technology, communications and media. In this role, she is responsible for antitrust and mergers investigations in the areas of AI, cloud, software and hardware against big tech companies amongst others. She was previously head of unit for 8 years in DG CONNECT in charge of EU policy and legislation in the electronic communications sector. Between 2012 and 2014, she was Member of the cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner responsible for the Digital Agenda. She holds a law degree from the Autónoma University of Madrid and a Master in European law from the Brussels university. Before joining the Commission, she worked as a competition lawyer in the private sector.