Sean Ennis

Professor & Director of Centre for Competition Policy at University of East Anglia

Speaker

Dr. Sean Ennis is Professor at the University of East Anglia’s business school and Director of its Centre for Competition Policy. He has extensive experience in management, strategy, and economic policy focused on the interface between the private sector and government. At the University of East Anglia, he runs an internationally recognized research centre on markets, regulation and consumers. He also pursues other professional activities. Notably, he serves as a class representative in a UK collective action claim before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

His research focuses on innovative sectors and economic impacts of incentives and contracts by applying economic methods to business practices. His work has been published in journals like Applied Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, among others. He has published significant studies related to digital economy, energy, financial services, communications, and health care. He has presented expert views to the European Parliament and the UK Parliament. His studies and statements have been published by organisations such as the G20, the European Parliament, the OECD and the World Bank.

Alongside his academic career, he has consulted for the United Nations, OECD, Inter-American Development Bank as well as many private companies. He co-authored and oversaw reports for regulatory agencies in Australia, EC, Greece, Mexico, the Philippines, Romania, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. He has been involved in antitrust and regulatory proceedings with the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the U.K.’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.

From 2003-2018, he was a Senior Economist at the OECD. For two years during this time, he served as Executive Director of the Competition Commission of Mauritius, where he reported to the Prime Minister’s Office. At the OECD, he developed and led the competition assessment of regulations program to assess market impacts of government regulation. Prior to 2003 he worked as an economist at the European Commission’s DG Competition and at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, developing economic analyses for investigations involving business mergers and contracting.

He obtained an undergraduate degree in economics from King’s College at Cambridge University and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.