Dr. Mark Williams
Director
European Competition Policy
Education
DPhil in economics from the University of Oxford
MPhil in economics from the University of Oxford
BA in PPE from the University of Oxford
Experience
Dr. Williams is an economist specializing in competition policy, merger control, market investigations, and competition strategy.
He has advised on over 100 inquiries in front of the EC and UK competition agencies, including advice to merging parties in InBev/Anheuser Busch, Universal Music/BMG, Sun Microsystems/Oracle, Thomson/Reuters, and EdF/British Energy, and for intervenors in AOL/Time Warner/EMI, Abbey National/Lloyds TSB, and BSkyB/Manchester United. He has also advised on UK market investigations including Groceries, New Motor Cars, BAA, and the Supply of Milk.
Dr. Williams was educated at Oxford (BA, MPhil, DPhil). He was a Fellow in Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, where he lectured on microeconomics, industrial organization, and game theory, as well the economics of competition law on the BCL. From Oxford, he set up LBE, an economics consultancy, acquired by NERA in 2002, and has subsequently led NERA's European Competition Policy practice, leading teams providing advice on competition cases across Europe.
Agencies:
- Office of Fair Trading
- Competition Commission
- Competition Appeal Tribunal
- European Commission
- Ofcom
- Ofgem
- ORR
- CAA
Markets and Sectors:
- Advertising
- Agriculture Products
- Agricultural Cooperatives
- Airports
- Airlines
- Banking
- Beer
- Betting
- Books
- Broadcasting
- Buses
- Cars
- Catalogue Shopping
- Classified Advertising
- Collecting Societies
- Cruises
- Dairy
- Electricity
- Energy
- Estate Agents
- Exhibition Centres and Arenas
- Ferries
- FMCG
- Football (Association)
- Football (Rugby)
- Frozen Food
- Gas
- Gas Storage
- Grocery Retailing
- Hotels
- Industrial Goods
- Insurance
- Internet
- Liquefied Natural Gas
- Media
- Metal Products
- Mining
- Mobile Communications
- Movie Production
- Music
- Music Publishing
- Newspapers and Magazines
- Oil and Gas Equipment
- Oil Rigs
- Pay TV
- Petfoods
- Petrol Retailing
- Pharmacies
- Pharmaceuticals
- Plant Breeders Rights
- Professional Services
- Rail
- Recorded Music
- Retailing
- Salt
- Scientific Equipment
- Software
- Sport
- Sports Goods
- Stock Exchanges
- Telephony
- Telephone Equipment
- Transport
- Video Games
- Water
