Professor Ioannis Kokkoris

Profile

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris holds a Chair in Law and Economics at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is also the Vice Chairman of the Institute of Studies in Competition Law and Policy.

Research

Research Interests:

He is an expert on competition law as well as on law and economics. His main research interests are in the area of law and economics, comparative competition law/economics and policy focusing on EU, China and ASEAN, as well as intellectual property, and financial regulation. 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 worked on abuse of dominance cases as well as cartels and other anticompetitive agreements cases. He has previously served as an Economist in the Merger Task Force at the DG Competition-European Commission.

Publications

Professor Kokkoris’ recent publications include:

• Kokkoris I., Shelanski H., EU Merger Control: A Legal and Economic Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2014;
• Kokkoris I., Search Engine Innovation and Abuse of Dominance, Antitrust Bulletin, 2017;
• Kokkoris I., Should China Harmonize Its Merger Assessment With US and EU, Tsinghua China Law Review, volume 7, issue 1, 2014;
• Kokkoris I. and Ioannidou M., Competition enforcement in developing markets, in Figueroa P., Competition and Trade law in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Edward Elgar, 2017;
• Kokkoris I, ‘The special nature of banks and its regulatory challenges’, in Gray J., Cecco F., Research Handbook on State Aid in the Banking Sector, Edward Elgar, 2017; and
• Kokkoris I, ‘The pharmaceutical sector between Patent Law and Competition Law in UK’, in Muscolo G., and Pitruzzella G., Competition and Intellectual Property Law in the Pharmaceutical Sector: An International Perspective, Kluwer, 2016.

Public Engagement

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris was the Founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Commercial Law and Financial Regulation, Vice President of the International Think-Tank on Innovation and Competition and has worked as a Consultant at the Federal Trade Commission, USA.

Professor Kokkoris has led and worked on funded projects by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, World Bank, the European Commission, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and other international institutions. He is a special advisor to a number of competition authorities and frequently advises companies on competition enforcement issues in a number of jurisdictions and delivers training programmes for companies, competition authorities and courts.