Pinar Akman (LLB, LLM, PhD) is a Professor of Law specialising in competition law at the School of Law, University of Leeds. Outside of academia, she is a judge at the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal and a member of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Innovation Advisory Group. Previously, she was a Director at the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance funded by the European Commission (2019-2023), and the Director of the Centre for Business Law and Practice at the University of Leeds (2017-2020). She has degrees in law from the University of Ankara and the University of East Anglia. She is a foreign qualified lawyer. She has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of the sell-out monograph The Concept Abuse in EU Competition Law: Law and Economic Approaches (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2012; reprinted, 2015). She is a Non-Governmental Advisor to the UK and to Turkey for the International Competition Network’s (ICN) Unilateral Conduct Working Group and Cartels Working Group, respectively. In 2017, Pinar Akman was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize (£100,000) by the Leverhulme Trust for her research into the application of competition law in digital technology markets. In 2018, she was awarded a Women of Achievement Award by the University of Leeds. Pinar Akman has presented her research in over twenty countries around the world and regularly advises and/or works with international organisations including the IMF, International Trade Centre (UN/WTO) and World Economic Forum.