Peter Whelan

Professor Peter Whelan is a Professor of Law at the University of Leeds, where he is the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a qualified US Attorney-at-Law. He has published in prestigious law journals (such as Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Cambridge Law Journal, Modern Law Review, and Antitrust Law Journal) and recently completed a monograph on cartel criminalisation, which was published by Oxford University Press. He is currently finalising a monograph for OUP on parental antitrust liability. He has presented his research on six continents and in over 30 countries, including at various competition authorities globally. He has provided oral evidence to the New Zealand Parliament and to the Indian Competition Law Review Committee and has acted as a peer-reviewer for the World Economic Forum. He is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network and the Managing Editor of Oxford Competition Law. He is also a member of the United Nations Working Group on Cross-Border Cartels, hosted by UNCTAD.