William E. Kovacic
British Competition Authority - CMA (London), George Washington University - School of Law, King’s College (London)
Professor / Non-Executive Director
William E. Kovacic is currently a professor of Global Competition Law and Policy at George Washington University, where he is also director of the Competition Law Center. He is a Non-executive Director of the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. Before joining the GW Law School in 1999, he was an FTC Commissioner from January 2006 to October 2011 and served as Chairman from March 2008 until March 2009. Previously, Professor Kovacic was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001 through 2004, and also worked for the Commission from 1979 until 1983, initially as a staff attorney in the Bureau of Competition’s Planning Office and later as an attorney advisor to former Commissioner George W. Douglas. Before he became a Commissioner, Kovacic was the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School, where he began teaching in 1999. He had taught at the George Mason University School of Law since 1986, after practicing antitrust and government contracts law for three years at Bryan Cave’s Washington, DC, office. Earlier in his career, Prof. Kovacic spent one year on the majority staff of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee. Since 1992, Prof. Kovacic has been an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to the governments of Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. Kovacic received a bachelor degree from Princeton University (1974) and a law degree from Columbia University (1978).
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Linked authors
Stéphanie Yon-Courtin
Conseil départemental du Calvados
Laurence Idot
University Paris II Panthéon‑Assas
David M. Ortega Pecina
Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU)
Phil Evans
British Competition Authority - CMA (London)
Bruno Lasserre
French State Council (Paris)
Bernard Amory
Jones Day (Brussels)
Damien Geradin
University of Tilburg
Frédéric Jenny
ESSEC Business School (Cergy)
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Following the substantive harmonisation in Regulation (EC) no. 1/2003, the Commission has started more recently to focus on procedure and sanctions, and in January 2016, the European Parliament called for penalties against natural persons. This ‘On Topic’ issue looks at the current state of (...)
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This first roundtable of the conference “New frontiers of Antitrust”, Paris, 21 February 2014, was dedicated to the detection of anticompetitive practices. Although competition authorities are provided with significant investigative resources, the discussions goes on about the need to dispose of (...)
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Competition Agencies with Complex Policy Portfolios: Divide or Conquer? David A. Hyman & William E. Kovacic The worldwide adoption of competition law is a remarkable development in economic regulation. More than 120 jurisdictions have enacted competition laws, and roughly 90 of these (...)
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Les lignes directrices de 2010 sur les concentrations horizontales sont l’occasion pour le DOJ et la FTC de réviser et de renforcer le cadre institutionnel de la politique de concurrence américaine. Le bon fonctionnement commun des deux agences fédérales dans l’application et l’explication de ces (...)
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This third roundtable of the conference "New frontiers of Antitrust", Paris, 11 February 2011, was dedicated to the role of consumers associations in competition proceedings. According to William E. Kovacic, Commissioner at the US Federal Trade Commission, competition and consumer protection (...)
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You were appointed as Chairman of the FTC in April 2008. However, the FTC is a well-known administration for you. Indeed, from 1979 to 1983, you served as a staff attorney and as an advisor to one of the FTC’s Commissioner. Later from 2001 until 2004, you served as the General Counsel of the (...)
Books
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Competition Law on the Global Stage: David Gerber’s Global Competition Law in Perspective
Since 2004, the Institute of Competition Law has focused its attention and devoted its efforts on stimulating antitrust dialogue across the world through publications and conferences. The (...)
Date
11 November 2013
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120€00
