FACULTY OF LAW
THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
3rd Annual Competition Law Lecture:
SMEs and competition law
by
William E. Kovacic Former Chairman, US Federal Trade Commission
Time: 6:30 - 7:30pm, Monday 21 November 2011
Venue: Wang Gangwu Theatre, Graduate House, Hong Kong University
William E. Kovacic has served on the US Federal Trade Commission from January 2006 to October 2011 and served as Chairman from March 2008 until March 2009. Mr Kovacic was the agency's General Counsel from 2001 through 2004, and he worked for the Commission from 1979 until 1983, initially in the Bureau of Competition's Planning Office and later as an attorney advisor to former Commissioner George W. Douglas. From May 2009 to October 2011, he was the Vice-Chair fro Outreach for the International Competition Network. He is the Global Competition Law and Policy Professor at the George Washington University Law School, where he began teaching in 1999 and where he has now returned.