Svend Albæk is a Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He was until 31 January 2024 an Antitrust Adviser in the European Commission’s Competition Directorate-General where he coordinated the work of the Chief Economist Team in the field of antitrust and was the Deputy Chief Economist from 2014-2020. Prior to joining the Commission in 1998 Svend was associate professor of economics at the University of Copenhagen where he taught industrial economics.