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Ad van Loon is founder and owner of X-Media Strategies.

Ad studied Law at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands, where he graduated in 1987.

Since then, he specialised in media and telecommunications law. His research focused on the relationship between media law and competition law, a topic on which he wrote many reports (e.g., for the Council of Europe and for Unesco) and articles when he was a researcher, later research co-ordinator, at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam. He has a special interest in copyright law. Ad also worked at the European Audiovisual Observatory and in the Media Division of the Council of Europe. He was Secretary to the Standing Committee which was created by the European Convention on Transfrontier Television and Secretary of the Council of Europe’s intergovernmental committee on copyright matters. He represented the Council of Europe in the Contact Committee which was created under the European Directive on‘Television without Frontiers’ and also at WIPO meetings and meetings of the European Platform of Regulatory Authorities in the broadcasting sector (EPRA). Before he started his own business, he was Manager Legal and Regulatory Affairs for NLkabel, the trade association of cable operators in the Netherlands. In this role, he co-ordinated the negotiations of the cable sector with many European broadcasters and with collective rights management organisations. For NLkabel, he was a member of the Regulatory Group ofCable Europe, in which role he contributed to different pan-European studies on collective rights management issues.

Furthermore, an Adjunct Professor of Law, Ad has been teaching at New York Law School: courses on European Telecommunications Law, on Broadcasting Regulation in European States and on European Intellectual Property Law.

He also taught European Telecommunications Law at the University of Sergio Arboleda in Bogota, Colombia.

Moreover, Ad has a longstanding experience in advising national lawmakers of different European countries on how to structure and regulate their media sectors; in advising National Regulatory Authorities in the electronic communications sector and in training judges and journalists in different European countries.

On 1 January 2008, Ad established his own consultancy business under the name X-Media Strategies.