Peter Davis - UK Competition Commission

Dr Peter Davis was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Competition Commission (CC) in 2006 and was previously on the CC’s academic panel of expert economists from 2004. He received his PhD from Yale and served on the faculties of MIT and then LSE before joining the CC. In addition, he currently serves as President of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE). He has published widely, and last year his book Quantitative Techniques for Competition and Antitrust Analysis (co-authored with Eliana Garces-Tolon) was published by Princeton University Press. Recent cases include the Payment Protection Insurance market investigation; the Mobile Phone Wholesale Termination Charges Appeals; the Stagecoach/Preston, Zipcar/Streetcar and Stena/DFDS mergers; and the Sutton and East Surrey price determination appeal.