Professor Kai-Uwe Kühn is an economist who has almost thirty years of experience advising private firms and competition authorities on merger, antitrust, state aid and regulatory and damages cases, as well as competition policy in general. He is a professor of economics and deputy director of the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia and holds visiting appointments at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE) and Georgetown University.
From May 2011 to August 2013, Professor Kühn was chief economist at DG Competition, European Commission. During his time as chief economist, he advised the Competition Commissioner on all competition cases and policy initiatives (in particular State Aid Modernisation) and led the economic analysis on many large mergers (e.g. Deutsche Börse/NYSE, UPS/TNT, Univeral/EMI, H3G/Orange Austria, Western Digital/Hitachi, Outokumpu/Inoxum) and antitrust cases (e.g. Google, e-books, and the Standard Essential Patent cases), often in close cooperation with counterparts at US agencies. His consultancy experience has covered mergers in a broad range of industries (e.g. GE/Honeywell merger (2001) including the court appeal). Professor Kühn has participated in many complex antitrust matters, starting from Microsoft I on server interoperability and including multiple MFN cases, cases on radius clauses, brand gati...
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Kai-Uwe Kühn is a distinguished competition economist with nearly three decades of experience advising on mergers, antitrust, state aid, and regulatory matters. He is well-versed in complex cases involving digital platforms, cartel damages, and policy initiatives, making him a versatile asset in both private and public sector competition matters.