Bertin Martens is a senior economist at the Joint Research Centre (Seville) of the European Commission, working on digital economy issues. His current research interests focus on economic and regulatory issues around access and use of digital data in online platforms and in a variety of sectors. Prior to that, he was deputy Chief Economist for Trade in the European Commission in Brussels and carried out various other assignments, working extensively on international and institutional economics issues. He holds a PhD in economics from the Free University of Brussels.