John Kwoka is the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He recently served as Chief Economic Advisor to Chair Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission. Kwoka’s recent research has focused on merger and remedies policy and has been widely cited in the popular press as well as in academic journals. His work has resulted in more than 75 published articles and two books: Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies and Controlling Mergers and Market Power. He also is co-editor of the new case book Antitrust Economics in a Time of Upheaval, and its predecessor The Antitrust Revolution.
Kwoka previously served at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and once before at the FTC. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors and Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Open Markets Institute, a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, a member of the Advisory Council to the Competition Commission of Mauritius, the Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization, Vice President of Southern Economic Association, and President of the Industrial Organization Society. Kwoka regularly speaks at academic and policy conferences, at congressional and regulatory hearings, and with competition agencies in other countries.
