COMPETITION POLICY - Key Persons

Greg Olsen is a Partner and Head of the London Antitrust Practice of Clifford Chance LLP. He specialises in the application of EU and UK competition law to mergers, joint ventures and commercial arrangements as well as alleged behavioural violations such as cartels and abuse of market power. Greg also advises on regulatory investigations in a diverse range of industries including financial services, insurance, media and consumer goods. Greg holds a BCL from the University of Oxford as well as an LLB (Hons) degree from Canterbury University in New Zealand. He is a past Chair of the Competition Section of the Law Society of England and Wales. In 2018 he was named Dealmaker of the Year by Global Competition Review.

Howard Shelanski

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor of Law at Georgetown University

Howard Shelanski is Professor of Law at Georgetown University and a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. His scholarship focuses on antitrust and regulation. Shelanski has served in several government positions in the United States, including as Administrator of the White House office of Information of Regulatory Affairs (2013-2017), Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics (2012-2013), Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission (1999-2000), and Senior Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1998-1999).

Jacqueline Minor

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Member of the Advisory Board

Janithe Siriwardana

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Associate Tutor School of Economics

Jennifer Young

je..@uea.ac.uk

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Student UEA Law School

Joseph Carr

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Associate Tutor School of Economics

Juliette Hardman

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Centre Administrative Assistant

Kate Collyer

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Member of the Advisory Board
Chief Economist at BEIS
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy ( BEIS )

Kate Collyer is Chief Economist at BEIS and formally Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where she was responsible for the quality and standard of economic advice in the CMA's market and merger investigations. Kate was Director of Economics in the Competition Commission where she provided economic advice on a wide range of market and merger investigations in many different sectors in the UK. Before joining the Competition Commission, Kate was Director of Economics and Deputy Director at the Cooperation and Competition Panel (CCP) (now Monitor). At the CCP Kate led a large number of merger and competition investigations in the NHS and her research on hospital choice and merger simulation has been published in the Economic Journal. Kate has also worked as an economic consultant advising on antitrust and merger investigations in a range of sectors in the UK, Europe and US.

Lilian Klein

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Student UEA Law School

Miss Ellie Dobbyne

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Student School of Law

Miss Vasudha Wattal

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Research Associate, University of Manchester

Mr Benjamin Evans

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Student, School of Law

Mr Carlos Vega

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Postgraduate Researcher School of Economics

Mr Daniel Antal

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Data Scientist and Co - Founder of Reprex BV

Mr John Davies

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Ordinary Member, Competition Appeal Tribunal

Mr Junjun Zhang

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Student School of Economics

Mr Minh Dang

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Student School of Law

Mrs Esin Aygun

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Student School of Law

Mrs Patricia Claudet

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Student School of Law

Paul Fisher

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Member of the Advisory Board

Peter Courridge

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Centre Manager

Prachi Hejib

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Student School of Economics

Prof Amelia Fletcher

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Member of the Advisory Board
Professor of Competition Policy & CCP Deputy Director Norwich Business School
Professor of Competition Policy at the Centre for Competition Policy

Amelia is Professor of Competition Policy at the Centre for Competition Policy. She is also a Non-Executive Director at the Financial Conduct Authority. She was previously Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (2001-2013), where she also spent time leading the OFT's Mergers and Competition Policy teams. Before joining the OFT, she was an economic consultant at Frontier Economics (1999-2001) and London Economics (1993-1999). Amelia has written and presented widely on competition and consumer policy. In her ongoing research, she has a particular interest in the implications for competition and consumer policy of behavioural economics and online markets. She is also developing an online distance-learning MSc in competition policy to be offered to practitioners internationally. She has a DPhil and MPhil in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford and has been on the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and the Association of Competition Economics and on the advisory panel for the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE).

Prof Andreas Stephan

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Professor of Competition Law & Head of School School of Law

Prof Bruce Lyons

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Professor of Economics School of Economics

Prof Carmine Ornaghi

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Professor of Economics, University of Southampton

Prof Catherine Waddams

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Professorial Fellow Norwich Business School

Prof Greg Shaffer

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Professor of Economics and Management and of Marketing, Simon Business School, University of Rochester

Prof Hussein Kassim

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Professor of Politics School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies

Prof Jens Prüfer

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Professor of Economics & CCP Deputy Director School of Economics

Prof Kai-Uwe Kuhn

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Professor of Economics & CCP Deputy Director School of Economics

Prof Konstantinos Chalvatzis

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Professor of Sustainable Energy Business Norwich Business School

Prof Michael Waterson

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Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Warwick

Prof Monica Giulietti

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Professor of Industrial Economics, Nottingham University Business School

Prof Morten Hvlid

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Professor of Law School of Law

Prof Paul Dobson

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Professor of Business Strategy and Public Policy Norwich Business School

Prof Peter Møllgaard

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Dean, the Faculty of Business and Social Sciences, University of Southern Denmark

Prof Peter Whelan

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Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Leeds

Prof Pinar Akman

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Professor of Law, School of Law, University of Leeds

Prof Raphael Markellos

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Professor of Finance and Director of Research Norwich Business School

Prof Ratula Chakraborty

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Professor of Business Management Norwich Business School

Prof Robert Sugden

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Professor of Economics School of Economics

Prof Sean Ennis

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Member of the Advisory Board
Economist
Professor of Competition Policy & CCP Director Norwich Business School

Sean is an economist who specialises in competition economics, digitalisation and regulation. His research interests include competition economics, digitalisation and its impacts on markets, regulated industries and inequality. Currently Director of the Centre for Competition Policy and Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School, Sean has extensive experience in government work and competition law and policy. Previously, he was a Senior Economist in the Competition Division of the OECD. For two years, he was Executive Director of the Competition Commission of Mauritius, where he was the chief executive in charge of running Mauritius' independent competition authority. At the OECD he developed and led the development and application of the OECD's Competition Assessment Toolkit. Prior to that, he worked as an economist at the European Commission's DG Competition and at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, developing economic analyses for competition law investigations. Sean has published research studies and reports and provided capacity building related to a broad range of business activities (including digitalisation, communications, health care, financial and professional services). These studies or statements have been submitted to or published by economics journals and organisations such as the G20, the European Parliament, the OECD and the World Bank. He has jointly authored or overseen reports for regulatory and government agencies in Australia, Greece, Mexico, Peru, Romania, the United Kingdom and the United States. Sean has been involved in competition law and regulatory proceedings including with the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.