Who We Are | GW Competition & Innovation Lab | The George Washington University

Who We Are

Our Executive Team

Aurelien Portuese

Founder & Executive Director

Aurelien Portuese is Research Professor and the Founding Director of the GW Competition & Innovation Lab at The George Washington University.

Bill Kovacic

Co-Director

William Kovacic is Global Competition Professor of Law and Policy and Director of the Competition Law Center at The George Washington University.

Frederic Jenny

Co-Director

Frédéric Jenny is Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee since 1994, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC.

Our Senior Fellows

Michael Abramowicz

Senior Fellow

Michael Abramowicz is a professor at GW, specializing in law and economics.

Philippe Aghion

Senior Fellow

Philippe Aghion is a French economist.

Pinar Akman

Senior Fellow

Pinar Akman, along with serving as Professor of Law at Leeds University.

Neil Averitt

Senior Fellow

Neil Averitt held a variety of functions at the Federal Trade Commission, where he served for 37 years.

Johannes Bauer

Senior Fellow

Johannes Bauer is a researcher, writer, teacher, and academic entrepreneur.

Christian Bergqvist

Senior Fellow

Christian Bergqvist specializes in EU Competition Law, particularly in its application to deregulated and network-tied sectors.

Oscar Borgogno

Senior Fellow

Oscar Borgogno is a Research Officer in the International Relations and Economics Department at the Bank of Italy.

Lokesh Bulchandani

Senior Fellow

Lokesh Bulchandani, before joining the World Bank, has worked as an associate with an India-based tier 1 law firm.

Alexandre De Streel

Senior Fellow

Alexandre De Streel is the Academic Director of the digital research program at CERRE and Professor of European law at the University of Namur.

Elyse Dorsey

Senior Fellow

Elyse Dorsey is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in the antitrust and competition practice area.

Omar Vasquez Duque

Senior Fellow

Omar Vasquez Duque is a lecturer at Stanford University and an Academic Fellow at the Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

Emilie Feyler

Senior Fellow

Emilie Feyler conducts analyses at NERA on the economics of antitrust for litigation and merger and acquisition cases.

Pablo Florian

Senior Fellow

Pablo Florian applies economic theory and data analysis to support clients of Alix Partners in litigation and regulatory proceedings.

Roman Garagulagian

Senior Fellow

Roman Garagulagian is an economist specializing in analytics and complex economic damages, serving as a consultant at Forensic Economic Services.

Richard Gilbert

Senior Fellow

Richard Gilbert, along with being a professor in the University of Berkeley's Department of Economics, he was also Chair of the Department from 2002 to 2005.

Mathew Heim

Senior Fellow

Mathew Heim works as an independent consultant advising clients on political, policy or communications challenges in complex legal matters.

George V. Houngbonon

Senior Fellow

George V. Houngbonon is an IFC economist.

Tian Lan

Senior Fellow

Tian Lan is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University.

Aaron Lane

Senior Fellow

Aaron Lane is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the Graduate School of Business and Law, and Senior Research Fellow in the RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT U.

Pierre Larouche

Senior Fellow

Pierre Larouche is a CERRE Research Fellow.

Kristen Limarzi

Senior Fellow

Kristen Limarzi is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, LLP, based in the Washington, D.C. office.

Miroslava Marinova

Senior Fellow

Miroslava Marinova is experienced professional, having worked for more than 15 years in the area of competition law in the public and private sectors.

Douglas Melamed

Senior Fellow

Douglas Melamed has been a professor at Stanford Law School since 2014.

Stephen Mitroff

Senior Fellow

Stephen Mitroff joined the faculty at Duke University in 2005

Ryan Nassar

Senior Fellow

Ryan Nassar is a graduate of The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs.

Jorge Padilla

Senior Fellow

Jorge Padilla is Senior Managing Director, Head of Compass Lexecon EMEA, and Member of the Global Executive Committee.

Rafael Rossini Parisi

Senior Fellow

Rafael Rossini Parisi is a competition law professional based in Brazil with solid experience and academic credentials in antitrust policy.

Richard Pierce

Senior Fellow

Richard Pierce is the Lyle T. Alverson Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School.

Georgiana Pop

Senior Fellow

Georgiana Pop is a Senior Economist.

Edith Ramirez

Senior Fellow

Edith Ramirez served as a member of the Federal Trade Commission from 2010 to 2017, and as its Chair from 2013 to 2017.

Camila Ringeling

Senior Fellow

Camila Ringeling, before joining Hausfeld's antitrust and competition practice group, worked as consultant for the World Bank Group.

Abraham Song

Senior Fellow

Abraham Song is an Assistant Professor at Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education and Psychology.

Chris Stomberg

Senior Fellow

Chris Stomberg is an expert economist with over 25 years of litigation and consulting experience.

Mpumi Tshabalala

Senior Fellow

Mpumi Tshabalala is a senior legal counsel at the Competition Commission of South Africa.

Cento Veljanovski

Senior Fellow

Cento Veljanovski is founder and Managing Partner of Case Associates, IEA Law & Economics Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Buckingham.

Cristina Volpin

Senior Fellow

Cristina Volpin is a Competition Policy Expert at the OECD and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Law, Economics and Society at University College London.

Richard Whish

Senior Fellow

Richard Whish is Emeritus Professor of Law at King’s College London.

Koren Wong-Erwin

Senior Fellow

Koren Wong-Erwin, Partner in the Antitrust and Competition practice group at Jones Day.

Zoey Xie

Senior Fellow

Zoey Xie is a senior policy analyst at the GW Regulatory Studies Center.

Hans Zenger

Senior Fellow

Hans Zenger is the Head of the Unit at the Chief Economist Team of DG Competition (European Commission).