Prof. Ioannis KOKKORISSchool of Law, University of Reading Tel. +44 (0) 118 378 6580Email i.kokkoris@reading.ac.ukURL http://www.reading.ac.uk/law/about/staff/i-kokkoris.aspx
School of Law, University of Reading
Tel. +44 (0) 118 378 6580Email i.kokkoris@reading.ac.ukURL http://www.reading.ac.uk/law/about/staff/i-kokkoris.aspx
Professor Ioannis Kokkoris holds a Chair in Law and Economics at the University of Reading, UK. He is Vice Chairman of the Institute of Studies in Competition Law and Policy (www.imedipa.com). He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation (www.cclfr.com) and Vice Chairman at Institute for Studies in Competition Law and Policy. He is an expert on competition law as well law & economics. These are part time positions. Professor Kokkoris has formerly served as Principal Case Officer/Economic Advisor in the Mergers branch at the Office of Fair Trading, UK where he dealt with leading cases such as NASDAQ/LSE, NYSE/Euronext, Global/GCap and was a Member of the drafting team of the UK Merger Guidelines. He has also dealt with Abuse of Dominance cases as well as cartels and other anticompetitive agreements. He has also previously served as an Economist in the Merger Task Force at the DG Competition-European Commission; Vice President of the International Think-Tank on Innovation and Competition and as a Consultant at the Federal Trade Commission, USA. Professor Kokkoris has studied both Economics and Law. He has authored and co-authored more than 12 books with his most recent being Antitrust Law Amidst Financial Crisis with Cambridge University Press. His current book (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) is EU Merger Control: A Legal and Economic Analysis (with Professor Howard Shelanski).