15th OECD Global Forum on Competition 2016

Mr. Gönenç Gürkaynak, ELIG Gürkaynak’s managing partner and head of our competition law and regulatory team, spoke at a panel entitled “Promoting Competition; Protecting Human Rights” at the 15th OECD Global Forum on Competition on Thursday, December 1, 2016.

For a review of the presentations and post conference information, please view the conference website and program.

Key topics included:

• Promoting competition; protecting human rights
• The role of market studies as a tool to promote competition
• Independence of competition authorities - from designs to practices
• Sanctions in antitrust cases

Featured speakers included:

• Jean-Pierre Chauffour, Lead Economist for the Maghreb countries, World Bank Group  
• John Evans, General Secretary, TUAC
• Roel Nieuwenkamp, Chair, OECD Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct
• Toh Han Li, Chief Executive, Competition Commission of Singapore
• Anna Wu Hung-yuk, Chairperson, Competition Commission, Hong Kong, China
• Devender Kumar Sikri, Chair, Competition Commission of India
• Allan Fels AO, Professor, University of Melbourne, Monash & Oxford and former Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Márcio de Oliveira Júnior, Acting President, CADE, Brazil
• Maria João Melícias, Member of the Board, Portuguese Competition Authority
• Ivo Gagliuffi Piercechi, Chairman of the Board of Directors, INDECOPI, Peru
• Munrokhim Misanam, Commissioner, KPPU, Indonesia