Claude Rakovsky has served for most of his career as an official in the Directorate General for Competition in the European Commission.  In the last decade he has been in charge, as a head of unit, of the review of some of the major merger projects filed with the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation.  A considerable number of these proposed transactions, of worldwide dimension,  (Worldcom/MCI, Worldcom/Sprint, Exxon/Mobil, BP/Amoco/Arco, Price Waterhouse/Cooper, United/USAir, Procter&Gamble/Gillette, Johnson&Johnson/Guidant and many others) were reviewed in parallel by the US antitrust agencies, which gave rise to close transatlantic cooperation. Earlier in his career Claude Rakovsky served, within the Directorate General for Competition, as the head of the unit in charge of international relations. In this position he was the main negotiator for antitrust cooperation agreements between the EU and third countries, including the 1995 Agreement between the Government of the United States and the EU Commission regarding the application of their competition laws. Claude Rakovsky is Head of the Antitrust and Merger Policy and Scrutiny Unit.