Thierry Dahan was appointed agricultural trade mediator on December 2021 for a three-year term. Prior to this, Thierry Dahan was vice president of the French Competition Authority. He was previously counsel in the Competition and EU law department of Ashurst. Thierry Dahan specialises in antitrust law, mergers and regulatory matters. A graduate of ENA, the French National School of Administration (graduate school for senior civil servants and officials), Thierry joined the Cour des Comptes (French court of audit) in 1991. He was appointed General Director for Culture and Sport for the City of Lyon in 1996, under the mandate of former French Prime Minister and presidential candidate Raymond Barre. In 1999, he joined the office of the French Secretary of State for Justice as Technical Adviser in charge of economic law and budgetary matters, working in particular on the preparation and monitoring of the competition and company law chapter of the new economic regulation law of 15 May 2001. In 2002, Thierry was appointed Rapporteur général of the Conseil de la concurrence (French Competition Authority), a post he held until February 2009 when he returned to the Cour des Comptes as Senior Magistrate. Thierry Dahan is an avocat at the Paris Bar.
ENA 1989-1991 (promotion Victor Hugo)
Agrégation in physics (national high level postgraduate qualification)
University of Aix-Marseille I, Degree in philosophy