Panel Discussion

Date: September 13, 2006.

Topic: “Abuse of Dominance and Competition”
Venue: AmCham Premises, BMW Room

AmCham / Trade-related Assistance Center (TRAC) together with the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) organized a panel discussion on “Abuse of Dominance and Competition”. The panel discussion was part of a series of activities aimed at enhancing the business community’s understanding of the Egyptian Competition Law and its enforcement measures. The panel discussion focused primarily on article 8 of this Law and article 13 of its Executive Regulations dealing with prohibited abusive practices of dominant position in a relevant market. Held at AmCham premises, the panel discussion drew a large audience, sparked enthusiastic interest and generated a rich question-and-answer exchange between participants and panelists.

Prime Ministerial Decree No. 1316 of 2005; “Issuing the executive regulations of Protection of Competition and Prohibition of Monopolistic Practices Law” No. 3 of 2005.

Panelists:

Ms. Mona Yassin
Chair, Egyptian Competition Authority

Dr. Khaled Attia
Executive Director at the Egyptian Competition Authority

Mr. Gary Schorr
Attorney, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Biography: Mr. Schorr is a Senior Attorney in the Health Care Services and Products Office of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Competition, where he has conducted and supervised numerous investigations involving mergers, price fixing, and other anticompetitive actions by health professionals, pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and other health care sector firms. While at the FTC, Mr. Schorr has litigated cases in Federal District Court and before Administrative Law Judges. Mr. Schorr has conducted training seminars on investigative techniques and antitrust issues for Federal Trade Commission staff, Offices of State Attorneys General, and international antitrust authorities. In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission assigned Mr. Schorr to the United States Attorney’s Office for six months, where he prosecuted cases involving violent crime. He is a 1987 graduate of Boston University School of Law and has been with the Federal Trade Commission since 1989.

 Dr. Robert McMillan
Economist, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Biography: Dr. McMillan joined the FTC’s Bureau of Economics as a staff economist in 2004. Since that time, he has worked on a variety of merger and non-merger investigations in industries including retailing, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and hospitals. His current research interests lie in the areas of the spatial competition and auctions. Mr. McMillan received his Ph.D. in economics from the Stanford University, in 2005. His dissertation focused on retail pricing. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1999, where he majored in economics, statistics, and mathematics.

Dr. Wayne Dunham
Economist, U.S. Department of Justice
Biography: Dr. Dunham is a Research Economist in the Economic Analysis Group of the Antitrust Division in the Department of Justice. He has participated in a large number of civil merger and non-merger investigations into the practices of firms in a large number of industries. However he has worked primarily on monopolization cases and in cases involving high tech industries. While in the Antitrust Division, Mr. Dunham participated in the investigation that led to the 1998 U.S. v. Microsoft case and worked on all aspects of the litigation of that case until the final judgment was entered in November 2002. In 2005 – 2006, the Antitrust Division assigned Mr. Dunham to be a senior economist working for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers for one year, where he was involved in developing regulatory policy with regard to a number of high tech and transportation industry. He got his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Rochester in 1995 and has been with the Antitrust Division since then.