Benoît Durand is Partner at RBB Economics, which he joined in 2008. He has over 20 years of experience in competition economics, particularly in applying quantitative techniques in the context of competition law investigations. Benoît has worked on a vast range of competition cases, including numerous merger reviews, abuse of dominant position, horizontal and vertical agreement investigations, market inquiries and state aid investigations.

Prior to joining RBB, he was Director of Economic Analysis at the UK’s Competition Commission, and a member of the Chief Economist Office at the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission.

He was previously based in Washington DC, USA, where he worked in private practice. Benoît received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College, USA.

Benoît speaks regularly at competition policy conferences and has published numerous articles on competition economics issues. He is an associate professor at the Brussels School of Competition and a visiting professor at the Barcelona School of Economics. He is also an associate editor of the Antitrust Law Journal.