About The Speaker


Roberto Chieppa
Secretary General of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers since June 2018. General Secretary of the Antitrust Authority since December 2011. Judge at the Council of State since February 2000 and President of Section of the Council of State since February 2017. Previous positions: Judge at the Administrative Court of First Instance (Lombardy Regional Administrative Court) (1998-2000); Judge at the Court of Auditors, appointed to the Trento Office (1997-1998); Civil Judge (1991-1997). Lecturer for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in administrative and antitrust law; co-editor of specialized legal journals; author of more than 50 publications in the field of administrative law, including R. Chieppa, Studies in Administrative Law; R. Chieppa - R. Giovagnoli, Handbook of Administrative Law; R. Chieppa, Annotated Administrative Code (Annotated Administrative Code), R. Chieppa, The Administrative Process Code - Commentary on all the new aspects of administrative adjudication (Commentary on all the new aspects of administrative proceedings); R. Chieppa, Il processo amministrativo dopo il correttivo al Codice, The administrative process after the amendment to the Code, Milan, January 2012. Appointed by the Ministry of Regional Affairs as a member of the Committee for the Implementation of the Special Statute of the Region of Valle d'Aosta and as an expert on issues related to the liberalization of public services and local government reform. Member of the Committee for Simplification and Regulatory Reform, established at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. Collaborated with the "PHARE Twinning Project on Competition," funded by the European Commission to address Romania's entry into the European Union, teaching antitrust law in Bucharest. Author of numerous publications on independent administrative authorities. Speaker on antitrust and administrative law issues at several conferences.