Christoph Busch is a Full Professor of Law at the University of Osnabrück and the Managing Director of the European Legal Studies Institute at Osnabrück. Additionally, he is an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School.   His research interests include EU law, consumer law, contract law and unfair commercial practices with a particular focus on the platform economy, digital services, and algorithmic regulation. His comparative research on platform regulation and consumer law focuses on the EU, the US, China, Japan and Korea.   Christoph Busch is a member of the European Commission's Expert Group for the EU Observatory on the Online Platform Economy, which provides expert advice to DG CNECT on EU platform regulation. In addition, in 2021 he was appointed by the European Commission (DG JUST) as a member of the Consumer Policy Advisory Group, which is the Commission's main forum to consult with stakeholders on EU consumer policy.   He regularly provides expert advice on platform regulation and consumer law for national authorities including the Korean Consumer Agency, the Japanese Cabinet Office, the German Ministry of Economic Affairs, and the Swiss Office of Communications. He is a Fellow and Council Member of the European Law Institute (ELI) and co-chair of the ELI Digital Law Group. He is also a founding co-editor of the Journal of European Consumer and Market Law (EuCML) and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Consumer Policy (JConsPol).

Pinuccia Contino is the manager responsible for product safety policy in the European Commission’s department that is in charge of consumer protection. In this capacity, she is responsible for the revision of the General Product Safety Directive, which addresses, among other things, emerging issues such as connected devices and cybersecurity, the online aspects of product safety and the enhancement of the Rapid Alert System (Safety Gate/RAPEX). 

Product safety has no borders, that’s why one of her priorities is to increase and deepen international cooperation – among other tasks, she sits on the ICPHSO Board of Directors as ex-officio Member on behalf of the European Commission. 

Pinuccia has a passion for promoting stronger leadership by women, and has been serving as Secretary-General to WIL Europe, the European Network for Women in Leadership, since its formation in 2010. She also serves as social entrepreneurship mentor for the Miller Center Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) of the Santa Clara University. 

 
Finally, further to completing the Compassion Cultivation Training© in December 2019, in November 2021 she graduated as Ambassador of Compassion from the Applied Compassion Training™,ACT by Stanford University.