Christian BOVET is full professor and current dean of the University of Geneva law school. Since January 2005 he has also been vice-chairman of the Swiss telecommunications regulator (ComCom). He received an LL.M. degree from Columbia Law School (New York) in 1988 and worked for over a year as foreign associate with the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton, before practising law for several years as a partner in a Geneva business law firm. He is a member of the council of the Walther Hug Foundation, which every year rewards the best Swiss doctoral theses in law and periodically honours outstanding law professors. He sits on the editing board of the international review “Concurrences” and is currently co-chair of the working group in charge of revising Swiss competition law.