Alexandre de Streel is Professor of European law at the University of Namur (Belgium) where he is the Director of the Research Centre for Information, Law and Society (CRIDS/NADI). His main areas of research are the regulation and the application of competition policy to the digital economy as well as the legal issues raised by the development of artificial intelligence.
Alexandre is also assessor at the Belgian Competition Authority. He is a joint-academic director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), visiting professor at the University of Louvain, member of the Scientific Committees of the Florence School of Regulation (FSR) of the European University Institute and of the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI).
Alexandre regularly advises international organisations (such as the European Commission, European Parliament, OECD), national regulatory authorities and digital companies on regulatory and competition issues.
Previously, he has been senior European advisor to the Belgian Deputy Prime Minister, attaché in charge of economic and employment policies at the Belgian Permanent Representation to the European Union during the 2010 Belgian Presidency and expert in charge of telecommunications regulation at the European Commission (DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology).