Simon Bishop is a partner and co-founder of RBB Economics. Simon has over 30 years’ experience of advising clients across a wide a range of industries and presenting expert economics evidence before numerous competition authorities and courts throughout Europe (including the EU Commission and EU courts), South Africa, Australia and China. Simon is listed as a Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal which states that “Simon Bishop emerges as one of the very best competition economists worldwide according to our research”.

He has written numerous articles and reports on the role and practical use of economics in competition policy proceedings, including reports for competition authorities. His article ‘Snake-oil with mathematics is still snake-oil: Why recent trends in the application of so-called “sophisticated” economics is hindering good competition policy enforcement’ won the Antitrust Writing Award for Best Academic Economics Article in 2014. He is the co-author (with Mike Walker, Chief Economist CMA) of The Economics of EC Competition Law (third edition, 2010), a key reference text for competition practitioners.

He is also the co-editor of the European Competition Journal (with Philip Marsden, former Panel Deputy Chair of the UK CMA).