Person

Jones, Christopher

Head of Unit responsible for electricity and gas issues in the Commission's Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, responsible for negotiating the new electricity and gas internal market package with the Council and Parliament. Prior to this, he spent some 12 years dealing with competition issues in the Commission, inter alia being one of the team responsible for setting up the Merger Task Force, personal advisor on competition issues to Sir Leon Brittan, then Commissioner for Competition, and then moving on to become the Assistant to the Director-General for Competition. Co-author of two books on competition policy, the EC Merger Regulation, and the EC Competition Law Handbook, now in its 13th edition. He is also author of numerous articles on EU law; Professor; Univ. of South Australia; Harvard University; Commission of European Communities; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC; After teaching at Marquette Univ., he returned to Harvard where he is now a research fellow at the Russian Research Center