Michael Albers

I am advising competition authorities in Europe and Asia on the development of competition policy and on the enforcement of competition law. My consultancy ranges from conceiving policies and strategies for enforcement authorities to counselling of case teams in individual antitrust and merger cases. Before starting to work as an independent consultant, I was a Hearing Officer in competition cases of the European Commission until 2013. Prior to my appointment as Hearing Officer, I did policy and case work for the German competition authority, the “Bundeskartellamt”, as well as the Directorate-General for Competition of the EU Commission. I joined the latter in 1990 when the Merger Task Force was set up to inaugurate the European merger control regime. Subsequently, I was entrusted with the coordination of all pending EU antitrust proceedings, initially as principal administrator, later in the function of a Deputy Head of Unit. In 1998, I became responsible for the contribution of EU antitrust policy to the creation of a single European electricity and gas market. Later, I took over the telecommunications unit to formulate the EU competition policy contribution to the ‘digital economy’ until the College of European Commissioners appointed me as Hearing Officer.