Biographies of the CMA's independent digital experts
Published 23 February 2023
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Professor Annabelle Gawer
Professor Annabelle Gawer was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Annabelle is Chaired Professor in Digital Economy and Director of CoDE the Centre of Digital Economy at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey (UK). She is also Visiting Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School.
She has extensive public policy and private consultancy experience, having served as an Expert for the EU Commission and Parliament, the UK House of Lords, the OECD, and UK government departments.
Professor Anja Lambrecht
Professor Anja Lambrecht was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Anja is a Professor of Marketing at London Business School. Her research on the digital economy and digital marketing has been published extensively in Marketing Science, Management Science, the Journal of Marketing Research and the Journal of Marketing.
Before joining London Business School, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a Visiting Scholar at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to that, she worked as consultant at McKinsey & Company in Frankfurt. Anja has a Ph.D. from Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Professor Neil Lawrence
Professor Neil Lawrence was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Neil is the inaugural DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge where he is also the academic lead of AI@Cam, the University’s flagship mission on AI. He is also a Senior AI Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and the co-host of Talking Machines.
Geoffrey Myers
Geoffrey Myers was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Geoffrey is Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously worked in regulation and competition policy for 30 years at Ofcom as Director of Competition Economics, the Office of Fair Trading, and the Jamaican Office of Utilities Regulation.
Mark Nottingham
Mark Nottingham was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Mark is an expert in the Internet standards process, having written, edited or substantially contributed to more than thirty IETF RFCs and W3C Recommendations about topics like HTTP, caching, linking, Web architecture, privacy and security.
As Chair of the HTTP Working Group since 2007, he has overseen the evolution of the foundational protocol of the Web, notably including HTTP/2. As Chair of the QUIC Working Group, he oversaw the creation of HTTP/3 and the evolution of Internet transport. He has also served in Internet governance bodies, including the W3C Board of Directors, the Internet Architecture Board, and the W3C Technical Architecture Group.
Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Sir Nigel Shadbolt was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Nigel is the Principal of Jesus College, Oxford and a Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at University of Oxford. He is also a Visiting Professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton as well as the Chair and co-founder of the Open Data Institute.
Nigel is a policy expert as well as a researcher, making contributions to various fields including Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Web science.
Rod Sims AO
Rod Sims AO was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Rod is a Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, at the Australian National University. From 2011-March 2022 he was Chair of The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Prior to that he had a range of senior corporate and public sector positions. From 1988-1990 he was the Principal Economic Adviser to Australia’s Prime Minister Bob Hawke.
Dina Srinivasan
Dina Srinivasan was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Dina is a researcher and lawyer. She’s also a Fellow with the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale University. Her research and commentary on tech and competition are regularly covered in the domestic and global media. Previously, Ms. Srinivasan founded an ad technology company and spent four years as an executive at WPP.
Dr Mahlet Zimeta
Dr Mahlet (“Milly”) Zimeta was appointed as an independent digital expert for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in 2023.
Milly is a data and technology policy expert. She has previously been Head of Public Policy at the Open Data Institute (ODI), Senior Policy Adviser at the Royal Society (the independent scientific academy of the UK), and at the Alan Turing Institute (Britain’s national institute for data science and AI) she managed the Turing’s research partnership programmes in Health and in Finance/Economic Data Science. She currently serves on an Advisory Group at Chatham House and an Advisory Committee for the UK Statistical Authority (UKSA).