Krisztian Katona

Vice President of Global Competition and Regulatory Policy at Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)

Speaker

Krisztian Katona is the Vice President of Global Competition and Regulatory Policy at the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) in Washington, DC, where he leads CCIA’s U.S. and international antitrust and regulatory strategy and advocacy. Krisztian has over twenty years of professional experience, including serving at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as Counsel for International Antitrust, responsible for multilateral antitrust affairs and international cooperation. In that role, he represented the FTC and the U.S. Government in bilateral antitrust consultations and at international organizations, including the OECD Competition Committee, the International Competition Network (ICN), G7, and G20. In 2019, he served as a senior FTC advisor at CADE, the Brazilian antitrust authority. In addition, he served as an attorney in the FTC’s Technology Enforcement Division, investigating and litigating potential antitrust law violations in the technology sector. During his 15-year government career, he also received the FTC Award for Distinguished Service. Before joining the FTC, he worked on antitrust and competition matters in private practice in Washington, DC.

Krisztian is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches global competition law and policy. He serves as Secretary and Membership Officer of the ABA Antitrust Law Section, as a Non-Governmental Advisor to the ICN, and as a Special Advisor to the Business at OECD (BIAC) Competition Committee. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York and before the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He earned law degrees from the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Konstanz (Germany), Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (France), and ELTE University (Hungary). A frequent author and speaker on international antitrust, regulatory, and technology issues, he served as chair of the 2025 ABA Antitrust in the Americas program. In both 2025 and 2024, Krisztian was nominated for the Global Competition Review’s (GCR) Corporate Counsel of the Year award