Philippe Brusick is a trade and development economics expert having completed his tenure with United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In his more than 30 years of work at UNCTAD, he has worked extensively in areas of trade, development and competition law and policy. He headed UNCTAD’s Competition and Consumer Policies Branch for some 25 years. This involved supervising research on specific competition issues, organizing international meetings and conferences on the subject, taking part in multilateral negotiations related to competition policy, including at the WTO, and preparing and implementing technical assistance and capacity building programs for developing countries and regional integration schemes in all regions of the world, including Latin America, in cooperation with individual Governments and international organizations involved in this field, such as the World Bank, OECD and WTO. Mr. Brusick has 25 years of lecturing experience, at Webster University, then at Geneva University, where he taught economic translation from English and Spanish into French.
Philip Nelson
Phillip Nelson is the Managing Director for Secretariat Economists. Dr. Nelson was Assistant Director for Competition Analysis at the FTC. He taught economics at Yale University and antitrust law at Fordham Law School. While at the FTC, he served on the FTC’s Merger Screening and Evaluation Committees. Dr. Nelson has written numerous articles and two books, CORPORATIONS IN CRISIS: BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS FOR BANKRUPTCY POLICY and U.S. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS. He also edited the ABA Antitrust Section’s MARKET POWER HANDBOOK: COMPETITION LAW AND ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS.
After joining Secretariat Economists, Dr. Nelson played a major role in matters involving mergers, price fixing, vertical restraints, Robinson-Patman Act, unfair competition, intellectual property, class certification, and damage issues. He has provided testimony and affidavits on antitrust, intellectual property, class certification and damages issues. He has also analyzed competitive issues for FERC proceedings, contributed to dumping and Sect. 232 trade cases, reviewed transfer prices in tax and government royalty cases, and examined liability and damage issues in environmental damages cases, including Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) compensation cases. Among the industries he has analyzed are: pharmaceuticals, oil, gas, minerals, refineries, pipelines, oil field equipment, retailing, wholesaling, grocery products, vehicles, automotive parts, defense, pesticides, toys, electrical equipment, machine tools, plastics, chemicals, metals, household products, security exchanges, telecommunications, electrical utilities, insurance, cameras, computer hardware and software, integrated circuits, cable television, newspapers, grocery store products, retailing, fast-food, and health-care technologies and services. He has served as a chair and/or vice chair of the ABA Antitrust Section’s Economics, Intellectual Property, and Health Care and Pharmaceuticals Committees.
Philip Marsden
AAI International Advisor for the United Kingdom. Dr. Philip Marsden is Deputy Chair of the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee, and a member of the Case Decisions Committee, the Enforcement Decisions Committee and the Regulatory Decisions Committee at the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator. In September 2018, he was appointed by the Chancellor to HM Treasury’s Digital Competition Expert’s Panel and in November 2018 as a member of OFGEM’s Enforcement Decision Panel.
Marsden is also a Professor of Law and Economics at The College of Europe, Bruges, teaching the core LL.M. competition course and is co-founder and General Editor of the European Competition Journal, and the Oxford Competition Law case reporter series. His research interests include innovation incentives, comparative competition law and online markets.
For ten years, Philip held various roles at the UK competition authority, first as member of the Board of the Office of Fair Trading, then as Inquiry Chair and Senior Director, Case Decision Groups, at the Competition and Markets Authority, where he decided on Phase II mergers, market investigations and antitrust cases, post-SO.
He has for many years been Counsel to the fifty-CEO Board of the Consumer Goods Forum, and advises governments on competition issues under the auspices of the ICN, OECD, UN, ADB, EBRD, World Bank and IMF.
He was also a Board member of the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities, and was Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Director of its Competition Law Forum. In private practice, he worked at major law firms in Toronto, Tokyo and London. A competition official and prosecutor early on in his career, for the last 30 years Philip has also acted as independent counsel, specializing in advice to firms in the fast-moving consumer goods and high technology sectors, and to governments on competition agency effectiveness and decision-making. Philip earned his doctorate in law from the University of Oxford.
Phil Evans
AAI International Advisor for the U.K. Phil Evans is an independent consultant on consumer, competition and trade matters and is a Senior Consultant to Fipra. Evans is a member of the Competition Commission in the United Kingdom. Before joining the UK Competition Commission, Evans was Head of Consumer Policy at Fipra, joining the group after ten years as Principal Policy adviser at the UK Consumers’ Association where he was responsible for dealing with competition policy investigations and submissions and for developing its trade policy. The Chairman of the UK Office of Fair Trading, John Vickers, publicly wrote that “Phil has contributed enormously to the establishment of competition as a core consumer issue“; Evans is an economist by training, a visiting fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation at Said Business School, and has taught at the LSE, University of London and the University of North Carolina. Phil has also provided technical assistance to a number of national and international organisations, including UNICEF, Unctad and the WTO. Phil has authored six books and numerous studies on everything from trade policy to shopping.
Peter C. Carstensen
Peter C. Carstensen is the Fred W. & Vi Miller Chair in Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. From 1993 to 2002 he served as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development at the UW Law School. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and received his law degree and a master’s degree in economics from Yale University. From 1968 to 1973, he was an attorney at the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice assigned to the Evaluation Section, where one of his primary areas of work was on questions of relating competition policy and law to regulated industries. He has been a member of the faculty of the UW Law School since 1973. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute.
His scholarship and teaching have focused on antitrust law and competition policy issues. He has published a number of articles in the field, including a number analyzing aspects of the relationship of antitrust law and regulation. He served as co-editor and primary author of four chapters of the ABA Antitrust Section’s monograph, Federal Statutory Exemptions from Antitrust Law (2007) and co-edited, Competition Policy and Merger Analysis in Deregulated and Newly Competitive Industries (2008) to which he contributed three chapters. He has written a series of articles on buyer power issues that led to his book, Competition Policy and the Control of Buyer Power: A Global Issue (2017). He has also written extensively on merger policy and issues related to agricultural markets.
His other areas of teaching and scholarly interest are tort law, energy law and insurance law.
Pedro Callol
AAI International Advisor for Spain.
Qualified English Solicitor (currently non-practising) and Abogado admitted to the Madrid Bar; he has twenty years of specialist antitrust, trade regulation and transactional experience. Previously (2008-2014) a corporate partner leading the EU & competition practice of one of Spain’s larger law firms. Before that (2002-2008) he created and led the EU & competition practice of a London ‘magic circle’ law firm in Spain. Prior to that he worked with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and London (1999-2002), and before that he trained with some of Spain’s best practitioners in Madrid and Brussels. Law Degree Universidad Complutense and Business degree San Pablo University (Madrid). Law graduate, University of Chicago Law School (Fulbright – Banco Santander scholar). Master in European law, College of Europe, Bruges (sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
He was (twice) acknowledged at the time as one of the “top 40 under 40” by Iberian Lawyer and he is a specialist currently recognized by Global Competition Review, Chambers, plc Which Lawyer, Best Lawyers, Legal 500 and one of the top communications and media lawyers according to Who is Who Legal in the last two editions.
He is author of several specialist publications and is the Spanish correspondent of the European Competition Law Review. Board Member of the Fulbright Alumni Association in Spain and Secretary of the Board of University of the Chicago Alumni Association of Spain. Member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute in Washington, DC. He reads specialist seminars in the Carlos III and San Pablo Law Schools and regularly speaks on other academic and business venues including the ABA, IBA and UIA.
Languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Catalan.
Paul Nihoul
AAI International Advisor for Belgium. Paul Nihoul is a Professor of Antitrust Law at the University of Louvain. He has degrees from Belgium (Louvain) and the US (Harvard, LLM). He has taught in Africa, America and Asia. His scholarship has appeared in English, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. Before starting an academic career, he has practiced antitrust as an Attorney and Counselor at Law (Cleary Gottlieb, New York), a Counselor to a Cabinet Member (Belgium) and a Law Clerk at the Court of justice of the European Union.
Paul Dobson
AAI International Advisor for the United Kingdom. Paul Dobson is a Professor of Business Strategy and Public Policy in Norwich Business School. He joined UEA in July 2010 having previously held the Storaid Chair of Retailing and Chair of Competition Economics at Loughborough University since 1998. Dobson is recognised as a leading international authority on pricing strategy, retail competition, and supply-chain relations. I have written extensively on these matters, advised numerous national and international organisations, and provided regular commentary for a wide range of media (including TV, radio, and news/trade press).
He holds three degrees, including MSc and PhD in economics from the University of London, and have held academic posts previously at the University of St Andrews (1988-9), the University of Nottingham (1990-98), and Loughborough University (1998-2010).
Publications include books on strategic management (e.g. The Strategic Management Blueprint and Strategic Management: Issues and Cases) and competition analysis (Buyer Power and Competition in European Food Retailing), as well as papers in leading academic journals on matters such as price discrimination (e.g. Marketing Science), countervailing power (e.g. Economic Journal), competitive strategy (e.g. Journal of Economics and Management Strategy), vertical agreements (e.g. International Journal of Industrial Organization), bargaining theory (e.g. European Economic Review), industry policy (e.g. Economic Policy) and competition law and antitrust matters (e.g. Antitrust Law Journal and Antitrust Bulletin). His current research interests focus on business strategy and public policy, including two ESRC-funded projects examining the impact of retail pricing on overeating and food waste and the dynamics of price competition in UK food retailing, and an MRC-funded project examining alcohol pricing.
Dobson’s extensive advisory experience includes advising a wide range of competition and regulatory authorities and international organisations (including European Commission, OECD, UNCTAD, Office of Fair Trading, Financial Services Authority, and the Swiss, Hungarian and Serbian competition authorities). He has also advised numerous industry associations and major corporations on business and public policy and acted as an expert witness in competition law cases. His work spans a wide range of industries including retailing, wholesaling, fast-moving consumer goods, telecommunications, financial services, brewing, property selling, printed media and books, with advice covering mergers, strategic alliances, market investigations, vertical relations, and cooperative agreements.
Patricia A. Conners
Patricia Conners is a Shareholder at Stearns Weaver Miller, P.A. in Tallahassee, Florida, where she focuses on antitrust compliance counseling and leads the firm’s state attorneys general practice. She is a former Chief Deputy at the Florida Attorney General’s Office, the culmination of a career spanning 36 years and seven attorneys general. Prior to that, during much of her career in the Attorney General’s office, she was the Associate Deputy Attorney General overseeing the Office’s enforcement units, including the Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Lemon Law Arbitration and Civil Rights Divisions. In that role, she often led or co-led high-profile multistate matters such as the states’ opioids distributor settlement negotiations that resulted in a $26 billion and the multistate negotiations involving the five major mortgage servicers regarding various issues that ultimately concluded with Florida obtaining over $9 billion in monetary and other homeowner relief. She also supervised and coordinated the state’s legal and enforcement response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster, which was resolved with a $2 billion economic loss recovery for Florida. Ms. Conners served as the Director of the Antitrust Division for the Attorney General’s Office from 1995 until her departure in 2020, where she was responsible for implementing and overseeing the Attorney General’s state and federal antitrust enforcement efforts. During her tenure, the state obtained hundreds of millions of dollars in antitrust recoveries from a variety of matters involving such industries as the pharmaceutical, telecommunication, health care, dairy, retail, and technology industries, among others.
She is board-certified in Antitrust and Trade Regulation by the Florida Bar and is a past chair of the Antitrust and Trade Regulation Certification Committee of the Florida Bar. She is also active in the Antitrust Law Section of the ABA, where she has held a variety of leadership positions.
She was Chair of the NAAG Multistate Antitrust Task Force from 2001 to 2005, a position through which she coordinated multistate antitrust enforcement efforts implemented policy related to Task Force initiatives.
Ms. Conners received both her undergraduate and J.D. degrees from the University of Florida. She teaches portions of a State Attorneys General Seminar offered each January at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law.
Norman Hawker
Dr. Norman Hawker’s teaching responsibilities include BUS 6160:Business Policy & Social and Ethical Environment, LAW 3800: Legal Environment, BUS 6990: Business Strategy, BUS 4750: Strategic Business Solutions, LAW 6040: Legal, Regulatory & Political Aspects of the Business Enterprise, LAW 6880: Health Care Law, and PSCI 5260: Administrative Law.
Prior to joining the faculty at the Haworth College of Business, Hawker taught at Thomas M. Cooley Law School and the University of Toledo College of Law. Hawker’s primary areas of research include antitrust law and trade regulation.
