Head of the Department for Legal Information

Phone: +33 (0) 3 90 21 60 02 (Assistant)

Email: [email protected]  


Maja Cappello joined the Observatory in 2014 as Head of the Legal Information Department. Since 1998, she had worked for the Italian regulator AGCOM and was Head of the Digital Rights Department of AGCOM's Media Services Directorate. She was also Vice-President of EPRA from 2011-2014. Their native languages are Norwegian and Italian. Her day-to-day work at the Italian regulator included audiovisual regulatory issues at the European level. She has contributed to international conferences and bodies and participated as a national expert in cooperation projects between the European Union and the Council of Europe.

She is the author of articles and speeches in the fields of audiovisual media services, media pluralism and copyright and consumer protection.

She holds the title of LLM in EU law and received her doctorate in European social law with a law degree in 1994. She has been teaching media law at university level (Bachelor's, Master's and PhD) since 2001.