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Professor of Competition Policy, University of East Anglia

Amelia Fletcher CBE is a Professor of Competition Policy at NBS and Deputy Director at the Centre for Competition Policy. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority, a member of the Enforcement Decision Panel at Ofgem, and a member of DGComp’s Economic Advisory Group on Competition Policy. She was recently a member of the HM Treasury-commissioned Digital Competition Expert Panel, which reported in March 2019.

She has been a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Conduct Authority (2013-20) and Payment Systems Regulator (2014-20) and Chief Economist at the Office of Fair Trading (2001-2013). While that OFT, she also spent time leading its Mergers and Competition Policy teams. Prior to that, she was an economic consultant at Frontier Economics (1999-2001) and London Economics (1993-1999).

Her academic work focuses on competition policy, consumer policy and sector regulation, with a particular focus on behavioural economics and digital markets. Amelia has a DPhil and MPhil in economics from Nuffield College, Oxford.
She has been on the Councils of the Royal Economic Society, the Association of Competition Economics and on the advisory panel for the ESRC Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE) and the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP). She was appointed OBE in 2014 and CBE in 2020.

Experience

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    Professor of Competition Policy, University of East Anglia