The Contributors

Massimo Motta is currently Professor of Economics at the European University Institute, Florence, where he was Head of the Economics Department (2003- 2005), and at the Università di Bologna (since January 2007). He is also the Scientific Director of the Master in Competition and Market Regulation, a programme of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics. Previously (1992-2006), he was professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, and of CESifo, Munich, as well as member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Competition Economists, of the Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy at the European Commission, and of the Expert Academic Panel of Ofcom, London. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association.

His degrees include: laurea in Discipline Economiche e Sociali, Università Bocconi, Milano (1987); Master of Arts in Economics, Université Catholique de Louvain (1989); and PhD (European Doctorate) in Quantitative Economics, after studies at the London School of Economics and the Université Catholique de Louvain (1991).

Professor Motta's main areas of research are industrial organization and in particular competition policy, but he has also worked on international trade and multinational firms. His work has been published in several leading international journals, including the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of International Economics, and the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

Massimo Motta's book on Competition Policy: Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press), published in 2004, is the standard international reference on the economics of antitrust. He has extensive experience in supervising doctoral dissertations, and his former students have obtained important positions in academia, consulting firms, and in competition and regulatory agencies.

Alexandre de Streel is Professor of European Law at the University of Namur (Belgium) His research interests focus on electronic communications regulation and on competition policy. He has published extensively on the topic in telecommunications as well as antitrust reviews and is a regular speaker in academic and commercial conferences. Between 2000 and 2003, he was an expert in the Regulatory Policy Unit of DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission. He holds a PhD in Law (European University Institute, Florence) and a degree in Economics (University of Louvain, Belgium).

Nils Wahl is a Judge at the Court of First Instance since 7 October 2006. Born 1961; Master of Laws, University of Stockholm (1987); Doctor of Laws, University of Stockholm (1995); Associate Professor (docent) and holder of the Jean Monet Chair of European Law (1995); Professor of European Law, University of Stockholm (2001); Assistant Lawyer in private practice (1987-1989); Managing Director for an educational foundation (1993-2004); Chairman of the Swedish Network for European Legal Research (Nätverket för europarättslig forskning) (2001-2006); Member of the Council for Competition Law Matters (Rådet för konkurrensfrågor) (2001-2006); Assigned judge to the Court of Appeal for Skåne and Blekinge (Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinge) (2005).

Bruce Lyons is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.  He was previously Dean of the School of Economic and Social Studies at UEA and Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics.  He has degrees from Cardiff (BSc), LSE (MSc) and Sheffield (PhD) and taught at Cambridge 1979-85.  He has had visiting fellowships at EUI Florence and the University of Melbourne.  He is a part-time Member of the UK Competition Commission, and a Member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy (EAGCP) to the European Commission. 

Professor Lyons has published research on international trade and IO, economics of market structure, contracts between firms, empirical transaction costs, merger policy and evaluation of competition policy.  His current research is in the latter two areas.  He has written several advisory reports for the Commission, including one recently on merger remedies, and has acted as an expert witness in a case relating to the economic organization of British horseracing.

Tim Brennan is a professor of public policy and economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a senior fellow with Resources for the Future (RFF).  During 2006, he held the T. D. MacDonald Chair in Industrial Economics at the Canadian Competition Bureau.  He has been an economist with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and taught at George Washington University.  From 1996-97, he was a senior economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and in 2003-05 served as a staff consultant to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.  He has advised on competition law internationally, including Mexico, the Slovak Republic, Russia, and Uzbekistan.

Prof. Brennan’s antitrust research has examined vertical integration, per se rules, and interconnection agreements, with applications to regulated sectors and Microsoft.  He currently is focusing on exclusion, particularly bundled rebates.  His publications also address topics in regulation, copyright, electricity, telecommunications, media policy, environmental economics, and ethics.  With Karen Palmer at RFF, he co-authored two books on electricity deregulation, including Alternating Currents: Electricity Markets and Public Policy (2002).  He co-edits Economic Inquiry and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Information Economics and Policy, Communications Law and Policy, and the International Review of the Economics of Business. 

Prof. Brennan received a B.A. in mathematics in 1973 from the University of Maryland in College Park, and Ph.D. in economics in 1978 from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Mark Williams is a Director at NERA Economic Consulting where he leads their European Competition Policy group in London and Brussels. Over the last decade he has advised on numerous high-profile merger and monopoly investigations. He has acted on various ECMR Phase 2 mergers including Universal-BMG (music publishing), Dong-Elsam-E2 (Nordic energy) and Inco-Falconbridge (nickel mining) for the merging parties, defended Abbey National against Lloyds TSB, and advised intervenors in BSkyB-Manchester United. In market investigations his cases include supermarkets, airports, motor vehicles, milk and pharmaceuticals, whilst he has also acted for companies in abuse of dominance cases before the EC, OFT, CAT and sectoral regulators.