Frédéric Jenny
Emeritus Professor of Economics
ESSEC Business School
Frédéric Jenny is emeritus professor of economics at ESSEC Business School. His primary areas of expertise include industrial organization, competition policy, international trade, development economics, and law & economics.
He also serves in international leadership and advisory roles in competition policy, including long-standing leadership of the OECD Competition Committee and related global forums.
Previously, he served as chair of the OECD Competition Committee and chaired the World Trade Organization working group on trade and competition policy. He also was a non-executive director of the United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading.
In France, he served as a judge on special assignment to the French Supreme Court in its commercial, financial, and economic chamber. Before that, he was vice chair of the French Competition Authority and earlier served as rapporteur general and rapporteur at its predecessor institutions, where he helped shape modern French merger-control and antitrust enforcement.
He began his public-policy career advising the French minister of consumer affairs on the creation of France’s merger-control regime and competition authority.
Alongside his policy work, he held visiting and academic appointments at institutions including Northwestern University, Keio University, Wuhan University, the University of Cape Town, University College London, the University of Haifa, the University of Melbourne, and New York University.
Jenny is an officer of the French Legion of Honor and the French National Order of Merit, a knight of the Order of the Star of Romania, and a recipient of the Republic of Korea’s Heungin Medal for diplomatic service.
He earned a business degree from ESSEC Business School, a master’s and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris II.
