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Dr Adrian Majumdar is a Partner at RBB Economics. Prior to taking his post at RBB, Adrian was the Deputy Director of Economics (spending 6 months as acting Chief Economist) at the UK competition authority, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), now part of the Competition and Markets Authority. Adrian is referenced in Who’s Who as “an undisputable leader in the field” and “one of the absolute best” when it comes to complex investigations work, topping the rankings for EMEA economists in 2019. Adrian has advised on some of the leading competition law cases in Europe, including Intel (for AMD) and Post Danmark II. His experience includes many Phase II mergers and other matters before the European Commission and national competition authorities around the world. Adrian has also provided expert testimony under cross examination and in the ‘hot tub’ before the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and other courts. Adrian is a co-author of the textbook, UK Merger Control, 2016 and several research papers published by the UK competition authorities, covering selective price cuts and fidelity rebates, buyer groups, cost pass-through, and consumer savings from competition policy. While at the OFT, Adrian was the principal author of the Competition Act guidelines on Market Definition and the Assessment of Market Power. Adrian lectures for King’s College London, where he is a Course Director of the Postgraduate Diploma/Masters in Economics for Competition Law, attended by staff from many competition authorities. Adrian completed his undergraduate studies at Cambridge University and his PhD at the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia.