Safeguarding openness and fair competition for a competitive Europe

Shama K. Patari is Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Lenovo, where she oversees global compliance across the jurisdictions in which the company operates. Her work spans international trade regulation, including customs, export controls, sanctions and trade agreements, and she represents Lenovo before customs, trade and export authorities worldwide. Patari also leads the company’s ethics and compliance programme, managing investigations and the global implementation of corporate policies. In addition, she heads Lenovo’s global government relations, shaping engagement with governments, regulators and international policymakers, and oversees the company’s data privacy strategy, guiding policy development and regulatory risk management while embedding privacy principles across products, services and operations. 

Before joining Lenovo, Patari was a partner at an international trade law firm, advising clients across multiple industries on customs and trade compliance and representing them before US and international trade bodies. She also teaches international trade law and regularly contributes to debates on global trade and export controls. 

Sir Philip Lowe is a Senior Advisor at Kekst CNC, where he counsels clients on competition and energy policy matters. Sir Philip previously served as Director-General for Competition and later for Energy at the European Commission. After his tenure at the Commission, he joined the Board of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority. In addition, he is a Partner at Oxera, a leading international economics and finance consultancy. He also chairs the EU Competition Law and Policy Workshop and is a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre for Energy Reform. Sir Philip speaks fluent English, German, and French.

Tamsin Rose is a facilitator who was until recently a senior fellow for health at Friends of Europe. Having studied international relations, she has 25 years of experience working across the European continent from Ireland to Mongolia. A natural communicator, Tamsin has been a radio reporter, worked on press for the EU Delegation in Moscow and is currently a member of the external speaker team for the European Commission Directorate-General for Communication, describing how the EU works and key policies to visitor groups from around the world. Since 2002, she has specialised in public health and public participation issues, serving as the Secretary General of the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), and providing strategic advice for health groups on how to engage successfully with the EU.