Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Julian Wright is the Goh Keng Swee Professor in the Department of Economics at the National University of Singapore. He has a PhD in Economics from Stanford University. His research focuses on competition law, regulatory and strategy issues relating to multi-sided platforms, with special interest in marketplaces, app stores, booking sites, real-estate platforms, ride-hailing apps, payment platforms, and the use of data and AI. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters, including in the leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of the European Economic Association, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economic Studies. He serves as a Co-editor at the RAND Journal of Economics. His work on multi-sided platforms is widely cited, both in academia and by policymakers. He has been invited to present this work at central banks, competition authorities, the OECD, the World Economic Forum and other major international conferences. Professor Wright has also provided expert advice to major international corporations such as Facebook, MasterCard, Telstra and Visa, and was retained by Epic Games to give independent expert testimony to the Federal Court in Australia in Epic Games vs. Apple. In Singapore he has provided consulting services for Drew and Napier, the Land Transport Authority and the Ministry of Transport. He is a member of the Singapore Competition Appeal Board, a Senior Consultant at Econic Partners, and has been listed in the Who's Who Legal for Competition Economists (now the Lexology Index) since 2011.