Vivien Terrien

Vice-president at Autorité de la concurrence

Speaker

Vivien Terrien is Vice-president of the French Competition Authority. He also acts as Deputy Board Member of the Polynesian Competition Authority.

Before joining the Authority in 2024, he exercised as Judge’s Counselor (Référendaire) at the Court of Justice of the European Union for 15 years, ten of which as part of the EU General Court President’s office, and acted as an International Competition Network (ICN) Non-Governmental Agent for the Luxembourg Competition Authority.

Vivien is an Honorary Member of the European Lawyers’ Union. He practiced as an attorney in the antitrust teams of Linklaters in Paris and, then, of WilmerHale in Brussels. He qualified as a Paris and New York attorney-at-law after studying at Ottawa University (Canada) and graduating from the Universities of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and Nantes (France), the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) and Harvard Law School (Cambridge, USA).

Vivien is academically involved as a lecturer in EU internal market law and competition law at the Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, the Lorraine University, the Catholic University of Paris and the University of Pau and the Adour Region. In addition, he regularly intervenes as a speaker on EU antitrust matters in international fora and before various national authorities. Moreover, he has organized and participated in several trainings and workshops for national judges, among them, those held in the framework of the Training for National Judges in EU Competition Law at the OECD-GVH Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest (Hungary) and at the Law School of the University of Valencia (Spain).

Vivien has published many articles on EU litigation, antitrust and institutional law topics. Most recently, he co-authored the reference book “European Court Procedure – A Practical Guide” (Hart Publishing – https://europeancourtprocedure.eu) and he wrote entries in the French version of the Dictionary of Competition Law (Concurrences – https://www.concurrences.com/fr/dictionnaire).

Finally, Vivien sits as Board Member and Member of the Scientific Committee at the Research Institute advancing competition law and economics in small market and insular economies (ISLE). He is also a member of the Foresight Committee of the New Caledonian Competition Authority.