Ioannis Lianos - University College London

Ioannis joined UCL in September 2005 and was promoted to Reader in 2009. Since September 2004, he has been a visiting Professor in competition and intellectual property law at the Centre for International Industrial Property Studies (CEIPI) of the University of Strasbourg. He was an Emile Noel Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre at New York University School of Law in 2008-2009 where he worked on a funded project exploring issues of economic evidence and expertise in antitrust litigation in Europe and in the United States. Ioannis has also conducted funded research as a fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He has also lectured in various areas of European law and competition law at the University of Strasbourg in France and has held visiting appointments in competition and regulatory law at the University Paul Cézanne (Aix-en Provence /Marseille) and the Centre for European Studies of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). Besides academia, Ioannis has working experience at the European Court of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (New York office) and is a qualified advocate at the Athens and Paris bars. He is a recipient of numerous awards, grants and scholarships.

Ioannis contributes widely to the global discussion in the area of competition law and policy. He is a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA) at the International Competition Network (ICN), a Research partner with UNCTAD in Geneva and has also contributed to European Commission's consultations on damages. He has been elected a member of the international advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute in 2010 (http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/content/ioannis-lianos-university-college-london-joins-aai-advisory-board ).
He is also the co-General Editor of the Global Competition Law and Economics Series, established by Stanford University Press, in June 2010. He is the chairman of the Editorial Board of Competition Bulletin, Paris: http://www.concurrences.com, the co-chairman of the advisory board of Antitrust Encyclopaedia, a Senior Editor of the Antitrust Chronicle, Boston, MA, USA (CPI), a member of the advisory board of Global Antitrust Review, London (GAR) and the chairman and executive director of the Institute of Competition Law Studies (IMEDIPA), Athens, Greece: http://www.imedipa.com

Ioannis has organized and conducted training for judges in competition law and economics in London, Toulouse, Lisbon and Athens and has also organized international conferences on various aspects of competition law and policy at UCL and beyond.