Michelle Meagher
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Michelle Meagher is a competition lawyer, Senior Fellow at SOMO and co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project, an international anti-monopoly alliance. She is author of Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet – and What to Do About It (Penguin, 2020), a Financial Times Best Book of the Year. She is a Senior Policy Fellow at the University College London Centre for Law, Economics and Society
Barry C. Lynn
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Barry C. Lynn is the executive director of the Open Markets Institute. Over the past two decades, he pioneered understanding of how the monopolies of the 21st century threaten our democracy, individual liberties, security, and prosperity. Lynn’s efforts to update anti-monopoly law and thinking for the digital era have been fully embraced by the Biden administration and have shaped the thinking of policymakers and scholars around the world.
Vass Bednar
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Vass Bednar is the Executive Director of McMaster University’s MPP in Digital Society program (on leave), Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and a Fellow at the Public Policy Forum. Her work focuses on the intersection(s) between public policy and technology, and writes frequently in her popular newsletter “regs to riches,” as well as the Financial Post and Globe and Mail.
Sarah Stuewe
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Sarah Stuewe is Associate Director, Philanthropy and Investor Relations at Windmill Microlending, a nonprofit organization that empowers skilled newcomers to Canada through affordable lending. With over 15 years of experience in fundraising and relationship management, Sarah has raised millions for charities across the globe.
Jon Shell
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Jon Shell is Chair of Social Capital Partners, an independently funded non-profit building a more resilient economy through broad-based ownership and quality employment. Jon is also a co-founder of the Canadian Employee Ownership Coalition and the Save Small Business campaign.
Alia Lachana
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Alia Lachana is a strategic partnerships and innovation executive focused on building resilient communities through equitable access to technology and economic opportunity. Alia is committed to developing solutions that decentralize control and strengthen local capacity.