Gareth Shier

Gareth specialises in the economics of competition and public policy within digital, telecoms and media markets. He has over ten years of experience advising a wide range of international clients, industry bodies and authorities. His competition experience includes numerous Phase I and Phase II merger proceedings, abuse of dominance cases and collusive agreement cases before both the European Commission and national competition authorities.

His experience in telecoms and media includes advising clients, industry bodies and the Commission on fixed-mobile convergence mergers, next-generation access pricing, policy impact assessments, pay-TV content licencing, and copyright issues.

Within digital, Gareth is a frequent contributor to the debate, having written and spoken on issues around copyright in the digital single market, liabilities and responsibilities for online businesses, and digital markets regulation. His recent work has focused on the forthcoming Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act and the practicalities of putting these new rules into practice.

Now based in Oxford, Gareth has previously lived and worked in London, Brussels and Amsterdam.