Svend Albaek

Svend Albæk is Deputy Chief Economist in the European Commission’s Competition

Directorate-General. He joined the Commission in 1998, working first for two years in

the unit in the Industry Directorate-General dealing with industrial aspects of competition

policy before moving to the Merger Task Force in DG Competition in 2000. In the MTF

he was involved in several Phase II merger investigations, coordinated the MTF’s Centre

for Excellence in Economics, and was a main author of the Commission’s horizontal

merger guidelines. He then moved to the Antitrust Policy and Strategic Support Unit

where he worked on the Commission’s Article 82 Review until joining the Chief

Economist Team in 2007. In the CET Svend has worked on merger and antitrust cases as

well as the revision of the horizontal agreements guidelines. Presently he coordinates the

work of the CET in the field of antitrust.

From 1992 to 1997 Svend was associate professor of economics at the University of

Copenhagen, where he taught industrial economics. He has done research at University of

Aarhus, UCLA, the European University Institute and Tilburg University, and published

articles in Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of Economics and Management

Strategy, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Scandinavian Journal of

Economics, European Competition Law Review, Antitrust Bulletin, Review of Industrial

Organization, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, and other international

journals.