Profile: Janusz A Ordover

Competition Economists

Biography: Competition Economists

Janusz A Ordover is a senior consultant to Compass Lexecon. He also serves as a Professor of Economics at New York University.

He served as the deputy assistant attorney general for economics in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice under President George H W Bush. While at the Antitrust Division, Professor Ordover served on the White House de-regulation task force, guided economic analyses of antitrust enforcement and acted as a liaison between the Justice Department and various regulatory agencies. At the Division, he was one of the main drafters of the 1992 Horizontal Merger Guidelines.

Professor Ordover has testified in the federal and state courts as well as regulatory agencies in the United States, competition tribunals in Australia and New Zealand, the Court of First Instance in Luxembourg, at hearings at the European Commission in Brussels, as well as in front of numerous regulatory bodies. He has also acted as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, as well as corporations and law firms in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Poland and other countries.

Professor Ordover has published many articles in economics and law journals on various antitrust issues, including predation, access to bottleneck facilities, vertical integration, as well as overlap between intellectual property rights and competition policy. He is a frequent lecturer on antitrust policy in the US and abroad.