Dr. Giovanna Massarotto is an international expert on antitrust, IP law, and economic regulation in the field of information technology. She has a PhD from Bocconi University in Milan where she researched and taught Competition Law as an Adjunct Professor. Her recent academic work includes both teaching and research at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and she is an affiliate of the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies (UCL CBT). Dr. Massarotto has been invited to present on antitrust and legal issues related to digital markets by several organizations in the U.S. and EU, including Harvard, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the OECD, the University of Oxford, the European University Institute (EUI) and EU regulating authorities, including the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and Autorita’ per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni (AGCOM). Before joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, Dr. Massarotto spent two years in the United States as a visiting research fellow for her PhD at Fordham University in New York and then worked in Washington, D.C., for an economic consulting firm specializing in intellectual property law, economic regulation, and antitrust in the telecommunications and high-tech industries. She was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford, worked at the Italian Antitrust Authority (AGCM) and for various international law firms in Milan. Her book ‘Antitrust Settlements–How a Simple Agreement Can Drive the Economy‘ presents the antitrust consent as a tool to combine law, economics and computer science in both U.S. and EU jurisdictions. In addition to the book, she has published multiple articles that investigate antitrust and regulatory issues related to blockchain, digital markets and software.