Ewoud Sakkers

Mr. Sakkers is Dutch and completed his undergraduate studies at Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht in the Netherlands after which he received an L.L.M. degree in European law from the College d’ Europe in Bruges.  He entered the European Commission in 1993.  After four years in the Directorate-General for Trade, he joined the Directorate-General for Competition, where he served as a member of its Merger Task Force.  Subsequently, he was a case officer, case manager, and deputy Head of Unit of DG-Competition’s unit on Basic Industries and Cartels.  In 2006, he became the Head of Unit for Cartels and in 2010 the Head of Unit for Policy and Strategy Directorate of the European Competition Network within DG-Competition.  He has published a number of journal articles on European competition policy and has co-authored The European Cartel Digest (Kluwer Law International, 2008) and co-edited The EC Law of Competition (Oxford University Press, 3rd edition forthcoming in 2013).  He has also frequently lectured on European competition policy and has taught courses at several European universities on European competition law.