The Contributors
Martin Cave is a Professor and Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He is co-author of Understanding Regulation (1999), co-editor of the Handbook of Telecommunication Economics (2002) and author of the Review of Radio Spectrum Management (2002). He is advisor to Ofcom and the Postal Services Commission and a non-executive advisory director of OFWAT.
Peter Crowther is an English qualified solicitor at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, and is also admitted to the Brussels Bar. Peter received his PhD from Copenhagen Business School, after completing his Masters in Law and Economics at Oxford University.
Peter has advised on the application of competition law and related regulatory matters across a wide range of industries including retail, telecommunications, insurance, upstream oil and gas, energy distribution and supply, banking and capital markets, commercial finance, railways, sea transport, and motorsport. Prior to entering private practice Peter was a lecturer in EC law and Competition law. Peter has published widely and is a Section Author of Butterworths Competition Law.
Michael Harker is a member of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and a lecturer in Norwich Law School at the University of East Anglia. His main research interests are in the fields of UK utility regulation (which was the subject of his doctoral thesis) and competition law.
In the coming years he will be participating (in collaboration with fellow members of the Centre) on research projects on consumer representation and remedies in mergers cases. In addition to this, he also pursues research interests in public law, particularly public law litigation concerning regulation.
Catherine Waddams Price is founding Director of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy and Professor in the School of Management at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her main research interests are in the reform of utility industries, the introduction of competition into previously monopolised markets, and the effect of these changes on income distribution, both in developed and developing countries.
She has advised the World Banks and regulatory bodies and government in the UK, Brazil, Argentina and the Netherlands and is a member of the UK Competition Commission.
Alison Oldale is Principal at LECG. Dr. Oldale specialises in using economic theory and empirical techniques to analyse the competitive impact of mergers and joint ventures, company conduct and agreements between companies. Dr. Oldale has advised companies in a wide range of industries, including fast moving consumer products, financial markets, transport, industrial goods and she has particular expertise in analysing telecommunications markets. Her merger work has involved providing advice and expert reports during investigations before the MTF and various national authorities. She has advised companies during competition law infringement cases involving various pricing abuses, as well as both vertical and horizontal agreements.
In the telecommunications sector Dr. Oldale has offered advice and submitted reports during consultations and proceedings involving competition authorities and telecommunications regulators. Dr. Oldale was educated at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics where she earned a PhD in Economics. She published in the European Competition Law Review and the Journal of Economic Theory and has presented papers at both academic and industry conferences.
Atilano Jorge Padilla is Managing Director at LECG. Jorge belongs to the Competition Policy group and is based in Madrid. He joined LECG in March 2004. During his years in consultancy Jorge has advised clients on a variety of competition policy and intellectual property issues, covering a wide range of industries, including retail electricity, media, telecommunications, entertainment and technology.
Dr. Padilla earned M. Phil and D. Phil degrees in Economics from the University of Oxford. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London), and a member of the Steering Committees of the Nyenrode Institute for Competition (The Netherlands) and the Association for Competition Economist (ACE). Jorge has written several papers on competition policy and industrial organization in the Antitrust Bulletin, the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Theory, the RAND Journal of Economics, the European Competition Law Review and World Competition.
He is also a regular speaker at competition policy conference in Europe and the United States.
Frank Wolak is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of research are industrial organization and econometric analysis. He specializes in the study of privatization, competition and regulation in network industries such as electricity, telecommunications, water supply, natural gas and postal delivery services.
He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Visiting Researcher at the University of California Energy Institute. Wolak is also the Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee for the Independent System Operator of the California Electricity Supply Industry. He has testified several times at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and at various Committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives on issues relating to market monitoring and market power in electricity markets.