Professor Philip Marsden
Biography
Philip Marsden (appointed in April 2014) is a competition lawyer with a particular interest in abuse of dominance, innovation incentives, consumer welfare, and international competition issues. He is Professor of Law and Economics at the College of Europe, Bruges, teaching the core LL.M. competition course and is co-founder and General Editor of the European Competition Journal, and the Oxford Competition Law case reporter series.
Philip is also Non-executive Director on the Board of the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities, and a member of the Legal Services Consumer Panel. From 2003-2014 he was Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London, and Director of its Competition Law Forum.
From 2008-2014 he was Non-executive Director on the Board of the UK Office of Fair Trading. A competition official early on in his career, for the last 25 years he has specialised in advice to firms in the fast-moving consumer goods and high technology sectors, and to governments on competition agency effectiveness and decision-making.
Register of interests
- Committee Member, European Competition Lawyers Forum
- Member, International Advisory Board, American Antitrust Institute
- Member, Scientific Committee, Global Competition Law Centre
- Member, Scientific Committee, CRESSE (Competition and Regulation European School and Conference)
- Member, Loyola Consumer and Antitrust Institute
- Member, International Board of Advisors, Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University
- Advisor, various international organisations (World Bank, OECD, ICN) and associations; occasional consultancy work focussing on compliance, peer reviews and decision-making
- Former Member, Casework Committee, Ofwat
Inquiry Chair
The Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills has designated Deputy Chairs of the CMA Panel, who are known as ‘Inquiry Chairs’ when they chair merger and market inquiries referred for phase 2 investigation by the CMA board, and regulatory appeals in relation to price controls, terms of licences or other regulatory arrangements.