Rome 25-26 June 2009
WHAT MAKES COMPETITION POLICY WORKS?

Damien GERADIN - Howrey LLP; Tilburg University


Damien Geradin is Professor of Competition Law and Economics at Tilburg University (in the Netherlands) and a member of TILEC. His areas of research include antitrust, network industries (telecommunications, postal services, energy and transport), and economic regulation in general. Damien is the Director of the Global Competition Law Center (GCLC), a think-tank devoted to analytical research in the area of competition law, which is based at the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium). He also held visiting professorships in a number of leading US Universities, including Columbia, Harvard, Michigan, UCLA and Yale. He is also a partner in the Brussels office of the international law firm Howrey LLP. Howrey is a firm specialized in antitrust, IP, and litigation. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics (Oxford University Press) and of the Journal of Network Industries (Intersentia). He has published more than 60 legal and economic papers in a variety of academic journals, including the Common Market Law Review, the European Law Review, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Columbia Journal of European Law, the Journal of World Trade, the Journal of International Economic Law, the European Foreign Affairs Review, and the Utilities Law Review. Damien Geradin is co-author of Global Antitrust Law and Economics (Foundation Press) with Einer Elhauge. He is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Liège School and holds a LL.M. from King's College London and a PhD from Cambridge University. He was a Fulbright research scholar at Yale Law School.






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