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Dr Philip Marsden is Senior Director, Case Decision Groups, Competition and Markets Authority, London, Deputy Chair of the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee, and a member of the Case Decisions Committee, the Enforcement Decisions Committee and the Regulatory Decisions Committee at the Financial Conduct Authority and the Payment Systems Regulator. Philip is also Professor of Law and Economics at the College of Europe, Bruges, teaching the core LL.M. competition course and is co-founder and General Editor of the European Competition Journal, and the Oxford Competition Law case reporter series. His research interests include innovation incentives, comparative competition law and online markets. His previous appointments include being Non-Executive Director on the Board of the UK Office of Fair Trading, Inquiry Chair at the Competition and Markets Authority, and Board member of the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authorities. He was also Senior Research Fellow at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, and Director of its Competition Law Forum. In private practice he worked at major law firms in Toronto, Tokyo and London. A competition official and prosecutor early on in his career, for the last 30 years he has specialised in advice to firms in the fast-moving consumer goods and high technology sectors, and to governments on competition agency effectiveness and decision-making. Philip earned his doctorate in law from the University of Oxford. He is also a keen distance runner and rower. His wife and children are all painters, but he still likes to think he can be creative too, if it leads to more efficient and effective enforcement.