Rate My Professor Ioannis Kokkoris

Professor Ioannis Kokkoris holds the position of Professor of Competition Law and Economics and serves as Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) within the School of Law at Queen Mary University of London, having been appointed to the directorship in September 2022. His academic qualifications include a BA in Economics from the University of Essex, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, an LLM from the University of Warwick, and a PhD in Competition Law from King's College London. He conducted research at Harvard Law School. Prior roles at the institution encompass Dean for International for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences from 2020 to 2022 and Director General of QMUL Paris from 2021 to 2022. Kokkoris joined Queen Mary in 2014. He previously worked at the UK Office for Fair Trading (now the Competition and Markets Authority), the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission, and the US Federal Trade Commission. Currently, he is an Ordinary Member (Judge) of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, acts as a special advisor to numerous competition authorities globally, and delivers training programmes for companies, competition authorities, and courts. He has led funded projects for the European Commission, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, the OECD, and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Kokkoris's research specializations cover all aspects of competition law and policy, with particular emphasis on comparative competition law and economics across the EU, US, BRICS, and ASEAN regions, as well as national security concerns and foreign direct investment screening in the US, UK, and EU. He is currently engaged in comparative research projects on competition law development and enforcement in the EU, US, China, and ASEAN, alongside studies on national security regimes. His prolific publication record includes monographs such as EU Merger Control: A Legal and Economic Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2014, co-authored with H. Shelanski; Chinese edition 2018; second edition forthcoming 2027), Research Handbook on Global Merger Control (Edward Elgar, 2023, co-edited with N. Levy), Research Handbook on the Law and Economics of Competition Enforcement (Edward Elgar, 2022), and The Treatment of Non-Collusive Oligopoly Under the ECMR and National Merger Control (Routledge, 2010). He has edited volumes like Competition and IP in China (Oxford University Press, 2018, co-edited with S. Maniatis) and guest-edited special issues of the Antitrust Bulletin. In 2024, he was recognised for the second consecutive year as one of the world's leading experts in competition law and economics by Who's Who Legal: Competition. His contributions significantly influence global competition policy and enforcement.