Emilio Calvano is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna (Italy), research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK) and co-heads the Digital Economics Research Network. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics. His recent research focuses on the economics of artificial intelligence and platforms and has been published, among others, in Science Magazine, the American Economic Review, the American Economic Journal, Management Science, the Journal of Competition law and Economics and the International Journal of Industrial Organization. In private practice he has advised several public bodies and companies on competition policy issues.