Richard Gilbert is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. From 1993 to 1995 he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he led the effort that developed joint Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual Property. Professor Gilbert’s research specialties are in the areas of competition policy, intellectual property, and research and development. Professor Gilbert served as Chair of the Berkeley Economics Department from 2002 to 2005, President of the Industrial Organization Society from 1994 to 1995, and the non-lawyer representative to the Council of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association from 2011 to 2014. He is the author of numerous research papers and has testified before Federal and State courts and regulatory agencies and the U.S. Congress. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.
Richard Brunell
Richard Brunell previously served as the General Counsel of the American Antitrust Institute. In 2012-13, he served as Senior Advisor for Competition Matters in the chairman’s office at the Federal Trade Commission. Rick previously practiced in the litigation department at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, and at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department. A contributing editor of the Antitrust Law Journal, Rick is the author of numerous antitrust articles and book chapters. He has testified before Congress and the Federal Trade Commission and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Rick is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He teaches antitrust law as an adjunct professor at Boston College Law School.
Rachel Brandenburger
Rachel Brandenburger is a globally recognized expert in international antitrust and regulatory law and policy, working at the interface of government and business.
She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law and a Visiting Law Fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, where she created and teaches seminars on “The Global Dimension of Competition Law”. She has also given guest lectures at Columbia University, King’s College, London, the London School of Economics, New York University, the University of East Anglia and the University of Hong Kong, and has authored and co-authored many articles on various aspects of international antitrust and regulatory law and policy.
She is also a Global Senior Advisor to APCO Worldwide, based in New York. Previously, she was Special Advisor, International to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, based in Washington, D.C. (2010-2013), a partner in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, based in Brussels and London and a senior advisor and foreign legal consultant to Hogan Lovells US LLP, based in New York.
Rachel is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (European Commission, 2013-2019; UK Competition and Markets Authority, 2020-), a member of the American Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section’s International Comments and Policy Committee and the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Antitrust Law Section, and a co-editor of Oxford University Press’ Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.
She has an M.A. (first class honors) in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford, is admitted as a solicitor of the Senior Courts in England & Wales, and is licensed as a foreign legal consultant in New York.
R. Alexander Saveri
R. Alexander Saveri, born San Francisco, California, July 22, 1965; admitted to bar, 1994, California and U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 2000, U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; 2000, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Education: University of Texas at Austin (B.B.A.
Finance 1990); University of San Francisco (J.D., 1994) University of San Francisco Maritime Law Journal 1993-1994. Member: State Bar of California, American Bar Association (Member, Antitrust Section), Association of Trial Lawyers of America, University of San Francisco Inn of Court, National Italian American Bar Association, University of San Francisco Board of Governors (2003 – 2006), Legal Aid Society (Board of Directors).
Saveri is the managing partner of Saveri & Saveri, Inc. After graduating from law school, he began working for his father and uncle at Saveri & Saveri, P.C. on antitrust and complex litigation. The current practice of Saveri & Saveri, Inc. emphasizes class action antitrust litigation.
Pradeep Mehta
A student of law and economics, Pradeep S Mehta studied at The Scindia School, Gwalior and St Xavier’s College, Calcutta. He is the founder secretary general of the Jaipur-based Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS International), one of the largest public policy research and advocacy groups in India, with overseas centers in Lusaka, Nairobi, Accra, Hanoi, Geneva and Washington DC.
He serves/has served on several policy making bodies of the Government of India, related to trade, environment and consumer affairs, including the National Advisory Committee on International Trade of the Ministry of Commerce and its working groups. He chairs the Advisory Board of the South Asia Network on Trade, Economics and Environment, Kathmandu.
Mehta has served on the advisory boards of Centre Advisory & Review Group of the Research Centre on Regulation and Competition, Institute for Development Policy and Management, Manchester University, UK; Institute for Consumer Antitrust, Loyola College, Chicago, USA; Brains Trust of the Evian Group, Lausanne; the OECD’s Advisory Committee for Investment in Africa, OECD, Paris; Advisory Committee of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, New Delhi.In the past, Mehta has served on the governing boards of the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Mumbai; the International Centre for Trade & Sustainable Development, Geneva and the Consumer Coordination Council, New Delhi.
Currently, he is a Member of the Board of Trade; Better Regulatory Advisory Group; and Steering Committee on Ecomark of the Government of India. Among several advisory positions, he has been and/or is honorary Adviser to the Commerce and Industries Minister of India, Trade, Commerce & Industry Minister of Zambia and to the Director General of the WTO.
Mehta has been named as one of the 30 most famous columnists in India by a leading newspaper in India. Over 3,000 articles of his articles have been published on issues relating to consumerism, competition policy, and trade & economics.
He has written and/or edited several books and monographs such as: Competition and Regulation in India (Edition 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017), Towards a Functional Competition Policy for India; Competition Regimes around the World; WTO and India: An Agenda for Action in Post Doha Scenario; Analyses of the Interaction between Trade and Competition Policy; Multilateralisation of Sovereignty; How to survive as a consumer; Numbers, at what cost.
Phillipe Brusick
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.
