Geoffrey A. Manne
President and Founder
International Center for Law & Economics
Geoffrey A. Manne serves as president of the International Center for Law & Economics, where he leads the organization’s research agenda and strategic direction. He founded ICLE in 2009 and has served as its president since 2018, following nearly a decade as executive director. His work focuses on the economic analysis of law, with particular emphasis on antitrust, consumer protection, telecommunications, intellectual property, and technology regulation.
In addition to his role at ICLE, Manne is a distinguished fellow at Northwestern University’s Center on Law, Business, and Economics and a visiting professor of law at IE University in Madrid, where he teaches antitrust law.
Previously, Manne was a law professor at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he taught law & economics, corporations, and international economic regulation. He later joined Microsoft’s legal department as academic-relations director for law & economics and subsequently served as director of global public policy at LECG.
Earlier in his career, Manne held academic appointments as a Bigelow fellow and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago Law School and as an Olin fellow at the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced antitrust and appellate law at Latham & Watkins, clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and worked as a research assistant to Judge Richard Posner. He also briefly served at the Federal Trade Commission.
Manne has received several professional distinctions and public-service appointments. He served two terms on Federal Communications Commission advisory bodies, including the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and the Consumer Advisory Committee.
He earned a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s from the University of Chicago.
