Mette Alfter

Director at Frontier Economics

Speaker

Mette is a Director in the competition practice of Frontier Economics. She is the head of Frontier’s Brussels office and co-leads Frontier’s German competition practice. She has been working as an economic consultant in this area since 1999.

She leads competition cases across Frontier’s Brussels, London and German offices, advising clients on all areas of competition policy, including in merger proceedings, cases involving the assessment of horizontal and vertical agreements and cases involving the assessment of abusive conduct. She also has extensive experience in litigation matters, including the estimation of damages – in particular in Germany. In this context, she regularly advises clients both in and outside of court. She has worked on a large number of competition cases before the European Commission and national competition authorities and courts - particularly in Germany, but also in other countries such as Austria, Denmark and the UK - spanning a wide range of industries.

Mette is regularly included in Who’s Who Legal’s economic expert rankings, including most recently as a Thought Leader in Who’s Who Legal 2023. She has been recognised as one of the ‘40 in their 40s - Notable Women Competition Professionals in Europe, the Americas and Africa’ and as one of ‘Five Star Women Competition Professionals’ by W@.

Mette has previously worked for RBB Economics (Brussels) und NERA (Brussels and London). She is half German and half Danish, and fluent also in English and French.