Professor Maria Ioannidou

Competition Law Expert at Queen Mary University London

Expert

Maria Ioannidou is a Professor of Competition Law at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London where she also serves as the Deputy Director of the Institute for Competition and Consumers. Between August 2019 to September 2022 she served as Commissioner Rapporteur and Member of the Board of the Hellenic Competition Commission. She has also practiced competition law in leading law firms in Athens, Greece and Brussels, Belgium. Thus, her experience to date, incorporates perspectives from private practice, academia as well as public enforcement.

Maria studied law in Athens (BA, LLM) and Oxford (MJur, MPhil, DPhil), during which time she also worked as a researcher and conducted legal research in a wide range of EU and US competition law issues.

Her research interests lie in the area of EU and UK competition law, competition law enforcement, the interaction between competition and consumer law, and the competition/ regulation dichotomy with a particular focus on competition law enforcement in digital markets. Maria also serves as the managing editor for the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement and as an editor of the World Competition Law and Economics Review. She is the author of ‘Consumer Involvement in Private Competition Law Enforcement’ (OUP 2015).