Benoît Durand is a partner at RBB Economics, which he joined in 2008. Benoît has extensive experience in competition economics; particularly in applying quantitative techniques in the context of competition law investigation. Prior to joining RBB, he was Director of Economic Analysis at the UK’s Competition Commission. Before that he was also a member of the Chief Economist Office at the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission. He was previously based in Washington DC, USA, where he worked in private practice. Benoît received his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College, USA.
Benoît has given oral evidence before the European Commission, the OFT and the French Competition Authority. He has also advised the Competition Commission of Singapore on various investigations.
He speaks regularly at competition policy conferences and has published articles on competition economics issues. He also teaches a course on competition economics at HEC, Paris.