The Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC) and the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) co-organized (Professor I. Lianos, President of the HCC, Professor Alexandra Mikroulea, and Associate Professor Emmanuel Mastromanolis) the international 2023 ASCOLA Conference (Academic Society for Competition Law). The Conference was held in Athens from June 29 to July 1, 2023.
The ASCOLA Conference is both an academic landmark and one of the most important and largest competition-related conferences held worldwide, each year in a different country. A particular honor was the presence of more than 200 participants, including prominent representatives of the European Commission, such as the Director-General of the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, the former Chief Economist of the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, Heads of Competition Authorities of other Member States as well as academics from universities of recognized standing from around the world. ASCOLA, was founded in Munich, at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, in 2003, with the aim of bringing together several hundred researchers and scholars from all continents, with the main topics of discussion being antitrust law, competition economics and policy.
More information on the ASCOLA Conference can be found on the official website of the conference which was created by the HCC's Digital Communication and Public Relations Unit, at https://ascola2023uoa.epant.gr/.
At the specific conference, the keynote speaker was the Director-General of the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission, Mr. Olivier Guersent, while the conference was addressed by the Dean of the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Professor Linos Sicilianos, as well as professors from the other Universities of Greece and abroad and high-ranking officials of foreign competition authorities.
The Conference, which was organized by the HCC’s Directorate for International Relations and Communications in collaboration with the organizing team of the Athens University Law School, was actively attended by HCC’s officials and was part of the sustained efforts made by the HCC’s Administration, over the last four years, regarding its staff’s training and upskilling.
More information on the HCC’s international cooperation and actions are available on its dedicated website.