Joel Bamford

Joel Bamford joined Fingleton Associates in December 2021. Previously, he was Senior Director of Mergers at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), where he leads the CMA’s mergers team on both cases and policy initiatives. Joel has also led a number of recent high-profile CMA merger investigations including Sainsbury’s/Asda and 21CenturyFox/Sky. Prior to working at the CMA Joel was the Advocacy Manager at the New Zealand Commerce Commission with responsibility for the policy, education, and international portfolio. Joel is an experienced competition economist with an MA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.