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Professor Pinar Akman is the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Professor Akman has published widely in the area of competition law and economics. In 2017, she was awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in law. She is the author of the monograph The Concept of Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches (Hart Publishing, 2012). She is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the UK and to Turkey for the International Competition Network. She is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College; Florence Competition Programme Scientific Committee (EUI); jury of the Antitrust Writing Awards (Concurrences); editorial board of World Competition and of Oxford Competition Law. In 2014, she was the International Rapporteur to the International League of Competition (LIDC) on abuse of dominance.

Professor Akman holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Ankara, and a PhD in Competition Law from the University of East Anglia. Her PhD was funded by an ORSAS award from the UK Secretary of State for Education and Science. At the University of East Anglia, she was one of the investigators who secured over £4 million in funding for the second five-year term of the ESRC Centre for Competition Policy. She remains an Associate Member of the Centre for Competition Policy.