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Frédéric JENNY is a French economist, Chairman of the OECD Competition Committee since 1994 and Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC since 2020[1].

Education and career
He obtained a business degree from ESSEC in 1966, a Master's degree and PHD in economics from Harvard University (1971, 1975) as well as a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Paris II in 1977.

He has taught at ESSEC as a member of the ESSEC Economics Department since 1972 and became Emeritus Professor of Economics in 2020.

His first advisory position in France was with the French Minister of Consumer Affairs (Christiane Scrivener) to introduce merger control regulation and create an antitrust authority (Commission de la Concurrence) via the passing of Law n° 77-806 July 19, 1977), today the Autorité de la Concurrence [2].

In 1978 he was appointed to the Commission de la Concurrence (the Competition Commission) as Rapporteur. In 1984 he became Rapporteur General and, in 1986, Rapporteur General of the newly created Conseil de la concurrence (created by ordonnance n°86-1243 on December 1, 1986 to replace the Competition Commission), a position which he held until 1993. From 1993-2004 he acted as Vice-Chair of the Conseil de la Concurrence (Competition council, French Competition Authority)[3]. In September 2004, he was appointed as a judge on special assignment (Conseiller en Service Extraordinaire) to the French Supreme Court (Court of Cassation), where he served in the Commercial, Financial and Economic Chamber until August 2012.

He serves on various committees and commissions. From 1974 to 1979, he was rapporteur for the Organizing Committee for Applied Research on Economic and Social Development (CORDES) attached to the General Planning Commission; From 1982 to 1986, he was a member of the Scientific Council of INSEE; From 1988 to 1990, he was Chairman of the working group "Price formation and functioning of markets in the economies of countries in transition" (Stoléru Mission, State Secretariat for Planning); from June 1990 to June 1996 he was a member of the "Scientific Council for the Evaluation of Public Policies"; from 2003 to 2007 he Member of the “Scientific Council of the Law and Justice Research Mission of the Ministry of Justice; from 2016 to 2022, he is Chairman, Ethics Commission of the French Insurance Federation.

In parallel with his activities in France, Frederic Jenny was elected in 1994 Chair of the Competition Committee of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and holds this position until today. In 1997 he was elected Chair of the WTO (World Trade Organization)'s Working Group on the interaction between competition and international commerce and held that position until 2003. From 2007 until 2015 he was a non-Executive Director of the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), United Kingdom.

Additionally, Frederic Jenny has taught at various universities around the world. He was a visiting professor in the Economics department of Northwestern University (U.S.A.) in 1978; visiting professor at Wuhan University (People’s Republic of China) in 1983; Visiting professor in the Economics department of Keio University (Japan) in 1984); Visiting professor at the University of Capetown Business School (South Africa) in 1991; Visiting professor at University College London (UCL) Law School (United Kingdom) 2005-2008;  visiting professor of European law at the University of Haifa Law School (Israel) in 2012; Senior Fellow in the Online Global Competition and Consumer Law Masters Program of the University of Melbourne (Australia) 2016-2018; Global Professor of Law, Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University, (U.S.A.) in 2014, 2017 and 2022.

He has published numerous articles and books [4] on microeconomics, industrial organization, development economics, competition law and international trade law.

Frederic Jenny is an Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honor, France (2003); Officer of the National Order of Merit, France (1999); Knight, Order of the Star of Romania (2017); Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, Korea (2019).