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Maja Cappello

Maja Cappello

Head of the Department for Legal Information, European Audiovisual Observatory

Maja Cappello joined the European Audiovisual Observatory, part of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, as Head of the Department for Legal Information in 2014. Set up in 1992, the Observatory’s mission is to gather and diffuse information on the audiovisual industry in its 41 member states.

Ms Cappello is member of the Italian Superior Council for Cinema and Audiovisual since 2017 and since 2020 she is also member of the Advisory Board of the European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO).

Before joining the Observatory, Ms Cappello worked for the Italian regulator AGCOM from 1998 and was Head of AGCOM’s Digital Rights Unit of the Media Services Directorate. Ms Cappello was also Vice President of EPRA (European Platform of Regulatory Authorities) from 2011 to 2014.

Ms Cappello is author of articles and speeches in the areas of audiovisual media services, media pluralism, copyright and consumer protection and holds an LLM in EU law and a PhD in European social law after graduating in Law in 1994.

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