Justin Coombs

Justin Coombs is an Executive Vice President and head of Compass Lexecon’s London Office. Justin has 20 years’ experience as an applied economist specialising in competition policy and economic regulation. During his economic consulting career Justin has advised clients in cases before the UK Competition Commission, the Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission and has provided expert reports to the Competition Appeal Tribunal and the European Union General Court. During his career he has given oral evidence at numerous Competition Commission hearings as well as before Parliamentary select committees. Prior to his career as an economic consultant Justin was a Director at the Office of Fair Trading where he was in charge of the enforcement of UK and EC anti-trust law in the service sector of the UK economy. During his career at the OFT, he advised on a wide range of competition policy cases and drafted many of the OFT’s guidelines on UK competition law, including its guidelines on market definition and abuse of dominance. Justin has also worked at Ofgem, the UK energy regulator, where he was the Director responsible for regulation of the gas and electricity transmission networks in Great Britain.