Gunnar Niels - Oxera

Gunnar leads Oxera’s work in competition policy, with 15 years’ experience in the field covering mergers, agreements, abuse of dominance, damages and state aid. He has advised companies such as Diageo, Ryanair, Belgacom, MasterCard and London Stock Exchange, as well as government bodies such as the Portuguese Competition Authority, DG Competition (EU), and OPTA (the Dutch postal and telecoms regulator). Gunnar has acted as expert in the UK High Court and has presented at hearings across a range of jurisdictions, including the Netherlands, South Africa and Venezuela.

Gunnar is currently a non-governmental adviser (NGA) to the UK for the International Competition Network (ICN) Working Group on Unilateral Conduct. He is on the Advisory Board of the Competition Law Journal, has been guest editor for the Antitrust Bulletin, and has published in many other journals, including European Journal of Political Economy, European Journal of Law and Economics, Review of Network Economics and Journal of Competition Law and Economics. Before joining Oxera, Gunnar was deputy head of the Economics Directorate at Mexico’s Federal Competition Commission. He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists 2011 and was among the five nominees for Economist of the Year in the Global Competition Review 2011 Awards.