Biography

Ioannis Lianos is Professor, Chair of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal since 2024. He was President of the Hellenic Competition Commission from August 2019 to January 2024. Ioannis was elected a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee in 2021 and re-elected in 2022 and 2023. He was also a member of the EU High Level Group for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and he was part of the Greek delegation during the negotiations for the adoption of the DMA. He was also the Chairman of the Special Law Commission that was in charge of the preparation of the New Competition Law Bill in Greece, which led to a significant reform of competition legislation in January 2022 (Law 4886/2022 which included important legislative innovations). Lianos’s work influenced different legislative reforms worldwide and his ‘polycentric competition law model’ is recognised as an alternative approach to the ‘consumer welfare aprpoach’ in competition law. His work on ecosystems and complexity competition law as well as his advocacy for integrating sustainability concerns in competition law had an international impact and is frequently cited as a source of inspiration in legislative reforms, case law and decisional practice of competition authorities.

Lianos is the founding director of the Centre for Law, Economics and Society (CLES) at UCL Laws and served as the executive director of the Jevons Institute of Competition Law & Economics at UCL. He is also a fellow of the European Institute at UCL. He teaches the EU Competition Law course at the College of Europe in Natolin. He was previously the Vincent Wright chair at Sciences Po Paris between 2018-2019 as well as the Chief Researcher of the Skolkovo Laboratory on Law and Development, National Research University, Higher School of Economics and academic head of the BRICS Competition Law Project (2014-2019). He has also held an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the WZB (Social Science Research centre) in Berlin from 2014-2016. Between 2012 to 2014 he was the Gutenberg Research Chair at France’s Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He is a visiting professor in competition and intellectual property law at the Universities of Chile in Santiago, the University of Strasbourg and was a fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Law & Economics and an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law’s Jean Monnet Centre as well as a fellow at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He was also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong in 2014. Professor Lianos has been a Non-Governmental Advisor at the International Competition Network since 2009, a research partner to UNCTAD in competition law and policy since 2010, and was an elected member of the advisory board of the American Antitrust Institute between 2010 and 2020. He was the co-editor of the Journal of Competition Law and Economics (2017-2024) and of the Yearbook of European Law (2015-2019), both published by OUP. He was the co-editor of the GLOBAL COMPETITION LAW & ECONOMICS series with Stanford University press and since 2018 he is the general editor of the book series Global Competition Law & Economic Policy with Cambridge University press. He sits at the Advisory Board of many law journals (including Journal of Competition Law and Economics, Journal of Competition Law and Practice, World Competition etc.). Between 2014 and 2019 he was a member of the review college of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He has advised a number of governments and companies on competition law, IP matters as well as better regulation (impact assessment, CBA).

Training Courses

• Florence Competition Autumn School