Hello, welcome back. Great to be with you again. This is Emlex's weekly podcast covering the top

regulatory stories of the moment with the assistance of our team of journalists around the globe.

My name is James Panicki. I'm Emlex's Asia Pacific Senior Editor. Now, admittedly, there

were a lot of different strands of news coming out of the recent UN Climate Change Conference

held in Scotland. Luckily for us though, Emlex's energy team was there, and both Julia Boudini and

Catherine Carlson will join us for an overview of what went down. That will be in the second part

of today's podcast. First, though, to the US, where the new direction of the Federal Trade

Commission, the FTC, has been referred to by one of its commissioners

as appalling and gut-wrenching. It was an unprecedented attack on the agency by one of its own.

So what exactly is going on here? Well, our listeners and readers know all about the Biden administration's appointment of

Lena Kahn to head one of the two US antitrust regulators. Kahn is what's been referred to as

a neo-brandycin, and we'll talk about what that actually means in just a moment. Our tech

correspondence, Mike Swift and Kushita Vassant, were there when Commissioner

Christine Wilson made those comments. Mike, of course, is our chief global digital risk correspondent

in San Francisco. Cushita is a senior correspondent, normally based in Washington, D.C., but today she

also joins us from the city by the bay.

And Khrushita, let's start with you.

What did Wilson say and what were the four mistakes that she said the so-called

Neobrandicians are making?

Thank you for having me, James.

And it's great to be doing this podcast with Mike.

We had a very interesting interview with FTC Commissioner Christine Wilson last week. This was

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