Careers in Competition Law

Lena Hornkohl talks with Max von Thun, Director of Europe & Transatlantic Partnerships at the Open Markets Institute, on the role of civil society in shaping competition policy and how to make a career contributing to policy.

In this issue, Lena Hornkohl and David Pérez de Lamo talk with Lewis Crofts, Editor-at-Large of MLex

Lena Hornkohl talks with Anastasiia Panchak on how to develop a career in competition working from Ukraine, and the developments and challenges faced by Ukrainian lawyers and the field of competition since the invasion of the country

Lena Hornkohl and David Pérez de Lamo talk with Vanessa Turner, senior legal advisor at BEUC, about her career path in competition, from the private sector to the public sector, and the challenges for lawyers making a career in competition

In this Podcast, Lewis Reed discusses with Idris Abdelkhalek, lawyer specialised in competition in a Swiss law firm, on the challenges of handling a life in private practice and legal research. If you are interested in how to balance both ends, this is a must-listen.

Lena Hornkohl talks with Alba Ribera Martínez, one of the most promising young scholars currently working on EU competition law and, more specifically, on the Digital Markets Act and the digital economy. They discuss the first steps in developing a successful academic career and the current research scenario in competition law in Europe.

Lewis Reed talks in depth with Victor Fernandes about his career in competition law in Brazil, his early days in academia and his work at the Administrative Tribunal of the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE).

Careers in Competition: Lena Hornkohl and David Pérez de Lamo talk with Professor Ruprecht Podzsun about a career in academia and competition law, exploring the track record of one of Europe's most impressive scholars working in the field.

Lena Hornkohl talks with Silvia Retamales, member of the Chilean Competition Tribunal, about her career in academia and practice.

Lena Hornkohl talks with Spencer Weber Waller, Professor and Director of the Institute for Consumer Antitrust Studies at Loyola University of Chicago, on the development of an academic career in competition law in the United States.

In this Podcast, Lena Hornkohl talks with Vellah Kedogo Kigwiru, a competition lawyer with a remarkable career starting in Kenya and now researching in Germany, where she works on digital markets. They discuss the contrasts between the role of competition law in European and African markets, the impact that those contrasts have in the analysis of markets and many other issues.

Fernando Castillo de la Torre, Director of the Competition and Mergers Team in the Legal Service of the Commission, speaks with David Pérez de Lamo and Lewis Reed about this career in the Commission, his early days in academia and private practice, as well as his time at the Court of Justice

A Podcast conversation with Eric Gippini Fournier, Hearing Officer for Competition in the European Commission, of his career in competition law and in the EU institutions more generally.

A conversation with Natalie Harsdorf-Borsch, Director General of the Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde, led by Lena Hornkohl, on her career and professional development, from her early years in University to the helm of her country's competition authority.

In this Podcast, we launch a new series on competition law careers. We start with one of the leading academics in the field, with an international reputation hardly unparalleled by any other academic now working on competition law in Europe. Pablo Ibañez Colomo is Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, author of some of the most groundbreaking books and papers in EU competition law, and a devoted believer in the power of independent thinking in the academic fore.