William Kovacic

Organisation: George Washington University Law School and former chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission (US)

William Kovacic is the Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy at the George Washington University Law School and a Visiting Professor at King's College London. Since 2014 he has been a Non-Executive Director of the United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority. He served as the General Counsel of the US Federal Trade Commission from 2001 to 2004 and was a member of the agency's board from 2006 to 2011. He chaired the FTC from March 2008 to March 2009. With Ariel Ezrachi, Kovacic is the co-editor of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.