Benno Buehler

Benno Buehler is a vice president affiliated to the Munich and Brussels offices of CRA International. Previously, he was a senior member of the European Commission’s DG Competition Chief Economist Team. He started his career at an international management consultancy. With more than 10 years of competition experience, Benno Buehler has worked on many aspects of competition policy. He did the economic analysis in a number of antitrust matters. He was also involved in a number of policy initiatives such as the Commission’s overhaul of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation. In light of his work experience at the European Commission, he is familiar with the perspective of competition agencies. His academic work has been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of Industrial Economics and the European Economic Review. He has also published on competition policy in the Review of Industrial Organization as well as in Competition Law & Policy Debate. Benno regularly speaks at competition policy conferences. He is a native German speaker, and is fluent in English and French.