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  • Mr Stefan Krawczyk
    Associate General Counsel & Head Government Relations International
    eBay Inc.

ABOUT

Stefan Krawczyk, a French national born in the Netherlands, is a civil, media and copyright law graduate from Leiden and Amsterdam Universities and former research fellow of the Munich Max-Planck-Institute for foreign and international industrial and intellectual property law. In June 2009, Stefan Krawczyk, a seasoned government relations specialist, joined Internet marketplace eBay. He heads eBay Inc’s International Government Relations team, covering all of the company’s interests in areas such as e-commerce, mobile commerce, distribution and sales, intellectual property, competition, consumer rights as well as parcel delivery and postal services in EMEA and APAC. Stefan currently also serves as President of Europe's digital media association EDiMA and Vice Chair of the Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD. Before joining eBay, Stefan worked for over five years as intellectual property litigator and for almost 15 years as senior lobbyist for the international recording industry with a focus on IPR enforcement, licensing of recorded music and organization of industry representations in the EU, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.