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Sebastien Soriano

National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (Saint-Mandé)

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Sébastien Soriano is the General Director of the French National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information (IGN) since January 2021. He was President of the French Electronic Communications and Postal Regulatory Authority (ARCEP) between 2015 and 2020. He previously worked at the same authority and was in charge of the mobile and broadband markets and the regional communities. Before his nomination as the President of the ARCEP, he was deputy general rapporteur at the French Competition Authority and managing director at the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Economy. He graduated from the École polytechnique and the Télécom ParisTech

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14 Jun 2019 Paris New Frontiers of Antitrust 2019 See documents

31 May 2018 Paris Does the dominance of platforms call for a regulation ? See documents

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Sebastien soriano (ARCEP) — Sebastien Soriano 14 June 2019 Paris

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Sebastien Soriano, Nicolas Charbit, Vincent Jaunet, Sylvain Justier Sébastien Soriano: Competition must conduct its self-examination

February 2021 1597

Interview conducted by: Nicolas Charbit, Editor, Concurrences, Paris Vincent Jaunet, Partner, Magenta, Paris Sylvain Justier, Partner, Magenta, Paris The video interview can be consulted at the end of this page. Nicolas Charbit: Sébastien Soriano, hello! You publish A Future of Public (...)

Paul Belleflamme, Francisco Costa Cabral, Tim Cowen, Daniel Fasquelle, Paula Forteza, Inge Graef, Max Huffman, Frédéric Marty, Jacques Moscianese, Gabriella Muscolo, Martin Peitz, Sebastien Soriano, Thierry Warin, Ramsi Woodcock Digital & competition

February 2020 4142

This series of articles highlights the existing debate about the role of competition policy in the digital economy. Each contribution addresses the subject from a different perspective. The first two discuss non-price strategies practiced by monopoly digital platforms and remedies that can be (...)

Sebastien Soriano, Veronica Pinotti Business & Personal data: Should access be shared? Should collection be confined? (New Frontiers of Antitrust - Paris, June 14th, 2019)

November 2019 687

The present contributions were gathered following up the 10th edition of the “New Frontiers of Antitrust” annual Concurrences review Conference held in Paris on June 14th, 2019, at the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. The discussions revolved around four topics. The members of the first (...)

Charlotte Tasso de Panafieu, Olivier Fréget, Sebastien Soriano Sébastien Soriano (ARCEP): Let’s invent a "Robin Hood" regulation that returns power from the digital titans back to everybody!

September 2018 1798

Interview conducted by Charlotte Tasso-de Panafieu and Olivier Fréget, lawyers, Fréget - Tasso de Panafieu, Paris. For several years now, in addition to or in addition to your role as regulator, you have been alerting public opinion with some strong statements on the dangers of the "platform (...)

Sebastien Soriano, Winston Maxwell Sébastien Soriano (ARCEP): Internet - A regulatory challenge beyond competition law

February 2016 679

Interview conducted by Winston Maxwell, Hogan Lovells, Paris. ARCEP now has the power to unilaterally decide that a VoIP service provider, such as Skype, is an operator within the meaning of the French Electronic Communications Postal Code. Why is this so important? Is it to deal with the (...)

Bruno Lasserre, Edouard Geffray, Marc Bourreau, Marc Lebourges, Nicolas Curien, Philippe Chantepie, Sebastien Soriano Regulating a dominant model: Economy of digital platforms (Paris, 7 April 2015)

May 2015 608

Platform regulation means adapting general laws to the digitalisation of the economy, whether general law concerns consumer protection, contracts between commercial partners, competition or data protection, rather than extending telecom rules which should on the contrary only apply to networks (...)