Griet Jans

Chief Economist at Belgian Competition Authority

Speaker

Griet Jans is the chief economist and part of the board of the Belgian Competition Authority. She leads the Chief Economist Team, and advises both the investigation teams of the Prosecutor General and the Competition Colleges on the use of economic tools and quantitative techniques in competition cases. Griet started at the authority as the deputy chief economist and economic advisor, where she worked on several non-simplified merger cases in different sectors, such as telecom and media, basic industries, retail activities and services. Besides this, she is the Secretary-General of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE), a distinguished non-profit network that brings together competition economists working in government, academia and the private sector, and she co-organizes the yearly conference of Competitio, a specialized journal for competition and competition law in Belgium. Griet is also the author of several papers on competition economics and policy.

She previously worked as a senior consultant for IDEA Consult in particular for the unit ‘Competitiveness and Innovation’, and as a research assistant at the Centre of Economic Studies of the University of Leuven in the research team of Monetary and Information Economics. Griet holds a master of science in economics from the University of Leuven.