Matthew BENNETT - UK Office of Fair Trading

Matthew Bennett is Director of Economics at the Office of Fair Trading. He is responsible for the economic analysis of OFT cases and for developing the OFT’s economic policy. He joined the OFT in 2008 from LECG where he was a Principal directing competition cases. Some of the larger cases he worked on during this time include the Aer Lingus / Ryan Air merger and the recent EU Bananas Information Exchange case. Prior to that he worked for the UK Communications Regulator OFCOM as part of the Chief Economist’s team. Matthew gained his Economics doctorate at Warwick University and completed a Post-Doctorate in Toulouse, where he studied the interaction between competition and regulation.