Anca Daniel Chirita

Anca Chirita joined Durham University in 2011 where she convenes Competition Law at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is a member of the Senior Common Room at Grey College and at St John’s College. In the academic year 2017/18 she is acting as Director of Ethics and Data Protection (member of the Law School’s Research Committee since 2016; co-chair of Durham Law School-Durham Business School’s Ethics Committee; and a member of the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Ethics Committee) and as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. During the academic year 2016/17 she was a Deputy Director of Research Impact and Deputy Chair of the Ethics and Data Protection Peer Review group. During the academic year 2013/14 she was a Co-Director of the Durham European Law Institute and during 2012/14 a DAAD visiting fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht. Prior to taking up her lectureship, she was a PhD fellow of the German Chancellor Adenauer Foundation at the Europa-Institute, Saarland University, Faculty of Law and Economics. Her PhD in competition law awarded Summa cum laude received the Dr. Friedrich-Feldbausch-Stiftung Prize . Previously, she completed the LL.M programme in Saarbrücken. During her PhD she worked as a national expert with the College of Europe, Bruges (DG COMP project 2010/11), as a trainee with the Monopolies Commission in Bonn (2009) and as a Blue Book trainee with the European Commission in Brussels (2007/08). Since 2011 she is a member of the Editorial Review Board of Oxford Competition Law.