International Conference on the Global Food Value Chain: Competition Law and Policy at Crossroads
The idea of the conference is to engage closely with competition authorities from the BRICS countries but also beyond and to involve international academics from law and economics/sociology of markets in order to test our ideas and proceed to the publication of an edited volume on “Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law” to be submitted to Cambridge University press.
The conference will form part of a new BRICS initiative, the BRICS Joint Research Platform on Competition Law and Policy, which will be officially launched during the conference in St Petersburg by the heads of the BRICS Competition Authorities.
The conference will be structured in two days, May 18th and May 20th, with 7 panels taking place during these two days and engaging a diverse audience of policy makers, practitioners and academics.
The first part of the conference will take the form of an academic workshop which will take place on Wednesday May 18th, 2016. Although the workshop will be open to the public, we expect the audience to be mainly academics and researchers/students from the Faculty of laws in St Petersburg as well as competition officials.
The second part of the conference will be integrated in the St Petersburg International Legal Forum, the most important annual international legal event in Russia. Our event will be integrated in the forum’s programme, in particular a series of events dedicated to BRICS, and organized by the Federal Antitrust Service of the Russian Federation in collaboration with other BRICS Competition Authorities. The heads of the BRICS competition authorities and senior staff have been invited to contribute to both parts of the conference but will take a more prominent role in this second part. We expect an audience of officials, business leaders and legal advisors attending the second part of our meeting.
Alexey Ivanov
Director, Legal Policy and Social Development Department, Skolkovo Foundation, Director, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Ioannis Lianos
Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy, UCL, Director, Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES), UCL, Chief Researcher, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Svetlana Avdasheva
Professor, Head, Faculty of Economics, HSE
Maxim Bashkatov
Leading Research Fellow, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Paulo Buccirossi
Director and Founder, Lear
Peter Carstensen
Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
Karan Singh Chandhiok
Partner, Chandhiok & Associates, India
Jim Chen
Professor of Law, Michigan State University
Amber Darr
Research Fellow, Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES), UCL
Dennis Davis
Judge, Western Cape High Court, Professor, University of Cape Town
Klaas Hendrik Eller
Faculty of Law, University of Cologne
Tomaso Ferrando
Assistant Professor, University of Warwick
Roman Inderst
Professor of Economics and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt
Frederic Jenny
Chairman, OECD Competition Law and Policy Committee
Luiza Kharmandayan
Head of International Department, CADE
Ujjwal Kumar
Policy Analyst, CUTS International
Robert Lawrence
Professor, Harvard Kennedy School
Daryl Lim
Associate Professor and Director, Center for Intellectual Property, Information Technology & Privacy Law at John Marshall Law School
Claudio Lombardi
Research Fellow, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Maria Sylvia Macchione Saes
School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting of University of São Paulo
Kirill Molodyko
Leading Research Fellow, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Alessandro Octaviani
Professor of Economic Law and Political Economy, University of São Paulo
Márcio de Oliveira Júnior
Commissioner, CADE
Hassan Qaqaya
Head, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch, UNCTAD
Sameer Pandit
Partner, Wadia Ghandy & Co.
Pierre Regibeau
Vice President, Charles River Associates, Visiting Research fellow, Imperial College London
K.K. Sharma
Advisor (Law), Competition Commission of India
Andrey Shashtitko
Professor, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Industrial and Market Studies, HSE
Jay M. Strader
Leading Research Fellow,HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
Rachel Whitworth
European Commission
Mark Wu
Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Wang Xianlin
Associate Dean KoGuan Law School Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qiang Yu
Research Fellow, HSE-Skolkovo Institute for Law and Development
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