Leanda Barrington-Leach
Head of EU Affairs, 5Rights
Biography
Leanda Barrington-Leach is the Director of International Advocacy & Head of European Affairs at 5Rights, an international NGO fighting for systemic change that ensures the digital world caters for children and young people by design and default. 5Rights has three areas of work: data and privacy, child-centred design and children's rights. Leanda is based in Brussels and was previously Adviser to the Secretary-General of the European External Action Service, focused on Strategic Communication and the fight against Disinformation.
Speaker session
We are the champions - Celebrating product safety advances
Protecting consumers from dangerous products requires a collective effort from all the stakeholders: regulators at national, regional and global level, businesses and consumers alike. This session will showcase examples of recent product safety advances and the heroes behind them.
Speakers:
- Brigitte Acoca - Head, Consumer Policy Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); OECD Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
- Vinciane Baudoin - Project Manager, Ligue des familles
- Trista Hamsmith - Founder, Reese’s Purpose
- Bogomil Nikolov - Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Director of the Bulgarian Active Consumers Association
- Susana Pratt - Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
- Luca Vahrenwald - CEO, TerrainQ Solutions
- Rudie Vella - Director, Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA)
Vinciane Baudoin
Project Manager, Ligue des familles
Biography
Vinciane Baudoin travaille à la Ligue des familles depuis 2004. Elle s’y implique dans de multiples projets comme Webetic, qui forme les parents à la gestion de l’usage du web par leurs enfants. Elle porte depuis 2018 la mise en place de la Maison des géants pour la partie francophone de la Belgique (tournée dans 6 villes, qui s’achèvera à Wavre en 2023). Elle a aussi repris depuis cette année la gestion du compte Facebook de la Ligue des familles.
Speaker session
We are the champions - Celebrating product safety advances
Protecting consumers from dangerous products requires a collective effort from all the stakeholders: regulators at national, regional and global level, businesses and consumers alike. This session will showcase examples of recent product safety advances and the heroes behind them.
Speakers:
- Brigitte Acoca - Head, Consumer Policy Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); OECD Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
- Vinciane Baudoin - Project Manager, Ligue des familles
- Trista Hamsmith - Founder, Reese’s Purpose
- Bogomil Nikolov - Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Director of the Bulgarian Active Consumers Association
- Susana Pratt - Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
- Luca Vahrenwald - CEO, TerrainQ Solutions
- Rudie Vella - Director, Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA)
Thomas Berbach
Legal Officer, General Directorate for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control, France
Biography
Thomas Berbach is deputy head of Unit 5A in charge of industrial products at DGCCRF (the French market surveillance authority responsible for consumer protection). He is in charge of coordinating the DGCCRF inspection network implementing the General product safety directive and various European harmonized product legislations applicable to consumer products.
With a degree in history and in political science from the University and the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Strasbourg, he entered civil service with the French Ministry of economy and finance in Paris in 2003, in charge of internal organization and administrative simplifications within the ministry’s general secretariat. He has been appointed to DGCCRF headquarters in 2006 as a policy officer initially responsible for the vehicles sector, and has specialized in the last ten years in all horizontal non-food product safety issues.
Besides the implementation of EU product safety legislation, his main area of focus includes the DGCCRF product compliance scheme, the monitoring of product safety levels in e-commerce and the improvement of the response to this challenge of all economic operators involved in the related supply chains, including electronic marketplaces, fulfillment services and “responsible persons”.
Speaker session
We are the champions - Celebrating product safety advances
Protecting consumers from dangerous products requires a collective effort from all the stakeholders: regulators at national, regional and global level, businesses and consumers alike. This session will showcase examples of recent product safety advances and the heroes behind them.
Speakers:
- Brigitte Acoca - Head, Consumer Policy Unit, Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); OECD Committee on Consumer Policy; OECD Working Party on Consumer Product Safety
- Vinciane Baudoin - Project Manager, Ligue des familles
- Trista Hamsmith - Founder, Reese’s Purpose
- Bogomil Nikolov - Member of the European Economic and Social Committee, Director of the Bulgarian Active Consumers Association
- Susana Pratt - Policy Senior Assistant, Unit Product Safety and Rapid Alert System, European Commission
- Luca Vahrenwald - CEO, TerrainQ Solutions
- Rudie Vella - Director, Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority (MCCAA)