Dr Konstantina Bania
Senior Lecturer in Commercial and Private Law

Summary

Dr. Konstantina Bania is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial and Private Law at Brunel University London. Konstantina is an expert in competition law, tech regulation, and media law. Her work in these areas has influenced legal and policy reform and has been presented to numerous international institutions and organisations, such as the European Commission and the BBC. In 2021, Konstantina was appointed as expert advisor to contribute to the E-Commerce Sector Inquiry of the Greek Competition Commission. In 2020, she was appointed to a group the members of which were selected by the Greek government to advise on data governance issues.

Konstantina is also a private practitioner, advising organisations active in the digital economy, such as multinational press publishers, app developers, broadcasters, and sports federations. She is one of the leading experts in platform regulation, in particular the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act.

Konstantina was previously a senior legal counsel at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). While at the EBU, she led two expert groups working on the reform of competition and regulatory rules to make them fit for digital markets, and the funding and remit of public service media. She has guided the EBU’s work on the platform-to-business Regulation and the Digital Markets Act proposal, and she was responsible for competition matters in relation to the sale and acquisition of media rights to major sports events.  

Konstantina holds a PhD from the European University Institute (EUI). Her dissertation, which explores the role of media pluralism in the enforcement of EU competition law, received the 2016 Concurrences PhD thesis award (an annual Europe-wide competition aimed at selecting the most innovative thesis in the field of law and economics). Konstantina has received prizes and fellowships from numerous institutions, including the Academic Society for Competition Law, the Fulbright Commission, the Competition Law Scholars Forum, and the Institute for European Studies.

Qualifications

PhD (EUI); LLM (EUI); LLM (VUB); LLB (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).