Paul Stoddart

Paul is a Principal at RBB Economics. He specialises in merger control and has advised on several of the most high-profile European Commission and CMA Phase II investigations, including Booking/eTraveli. Paul is recommended by Lexology as a competition expert and is Course Director of the Postgraduate Diploma in Economics for Competition Law at King’s College London, a leading programme for professionals from international competition authorities, leading law firms, in-house counsel, and competition tribunals.

Paul’s sector-specific expertise spans digital markets (ecosystems, search engines, mobile), enterprise software, cloud computing, telecommunications, logistics, facility management, energy, and FMCG (eyewear, toiletries).

Paul regularly writes on a range of competition issues and his publications have featured in leading journals including European Competition Law Review and Management Science. Paul has also contributed to reports for competition authorities including “Cost pass-through: theory, measurement, and potential policy implications” (2014) published by the Office of Fair Trading.

Paul holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and also studied Economics at the University of Warwick and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).