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Thibaud Vergé

Vice President – French Competition Authority

Thibaud Vergé was appointed Vice President of the Autorité de la concurrence on 27 December 2022.

A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and with a PhD in economics from the Toulouse School of Economics, he has spent most of his career in academia, firstly in the United Kingdom from 2000 to 2005 (Bristol, Southampton) and then at ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (from 2005 to 2010 and from 2013 to 2022).

From February 2010 to May 2013, he was Chief Economist at the Autorité de la concurrence.

In 2012 and 2013, he chaired the Association of Competition Economics, which facilitates exchanges between competition economists (from competition authorities, consultancies and academia).

He was a member of the European Commission's Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy from 2020 to 2024.