Australian Competition Law: Expert Profiles
Professor Allan Fels AO
Professorial Fellow, Australia and New Zealand School of Government
Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School
Honorary Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
Chair, National Mental Health Commission
Chairman, Haven Foundation
Relevant qualifications and honours
Bachelor of Laws, University of Western Australia
- Bachelor of Economics (Honours), University of Western Australia
- PhD, Duke University (published as The British Prices and Incomes Board)
- Honorary Doctorate in Economics, University of Western Australia (2006)
- Honorary Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University
Order of Australia (2001) For service to Australian competition policy through the development and regulation of trade practices and consumer protection, and to public education in relation to consumer law and its implications for business and commerce
Relevant work history and committee involvement
Member, Board of Advisors for the the Global Antitrust Institute, George Mason University School of Law, Law & Economics Center
- 2013 - Chair of the National Mental Health Commission
- 2013 - Professor of Government, Australia and New Zealand School of Government
- 2011 - 2012 - Head of Taxi Industry Inquiry, Victoria
- 2003 - 2013 - Foundation Dean of the Australia and New Zealand School of Government
- 2009 - Appointed part-time Productivity Commission Associate Commissioner for the
Inquiry into Regulation of Directors and Executive Remuneration in Australia - 2003- Professorial Fellow in the Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
- 1996-2003 - Co-Chairman of the Joint Group on Trade And Competition, OECD
- 1995-2003 - Chairman, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- 1991-1995 - Chairman, Trade Practices Commission
- 1989-1992 - Chairman, Prices Surveillance Authority
- 1985-1990 - Director of the Graduate School of Management, Monash University
- 1984 - Professor of Administration, Monash University
- 1982-1991 - Prices Commissioner, Victoria
- Senior Lecturer, Monash University
- 1972 - Lecturer, University of Melbourne
- Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge
Other
Fred Brenchley, 'Allan Fels: A Portrait of Power' (2003)
View ACCC Update, Issue 16, December 2004 - Celebrating 30 Years
Competition law publications (select)
Allan Fels AO, Nick Taylor and Prudence Smith, 'Simplifying Australia's competition laws' (2014) 30(8&9) Competition and Consumer Law News 94
- Fels, A & Mardirossian, Z 2010, ‘Cooperation, comity, and competition policy in Australia’, in A Guzmán (ed), Cooperation, comity, and competition policy, Oxford University Press, New York City
- Fels, A & Mardirossian, Z 2009, ‘Australia’, in MM Dabbah and BE Hawk (Eds), Anti-Cartel Enforcement Worldwide, Cambridge University Press
- Fels, A 2010, ‘Behavioural economics: questioning the foundations of antitrust?’ Colloque New Frontiers of Antitrust, Concurrences, no. 2
- Fels, A & Grimwade, T, ’Authorisation: is it still relevant to Australian competition law’ (2003) Competition and Consumer Law Journal.
- Allan Fels, 'The ACCC's Attitude to Mergers' in Institute of Public Affairs, Australian Competition Policy: Deregulation or Reregulation? (1 October 1998)
Many more forthcoming: for a comprehensive list of publications see ANZSOG profile