Vanessa Yanhua Zhang

Vanessa Yanhua Zhang, Ph.D.

Head of Greater China Practice, Executive Vice President, Compass Lexecon International

New York and Beijing

Dr. Zhang is a Head of Greater China Practice, an Executive Vice President of Compass Lexecon based in New York and Beijing, a Senior Research Fellow at the Market & Regulation Law Center (MRLC) of Renmin University, Vice Chairs of the ABA Antitrust Law Section- Global Private Litigation Committee & International Law Section- International Litigation Committee. She is an expert in applying economic analysis to competition, industrial organization, and intellectual property issues for clients across numerous industries in the US, the EU and Greater China. She has consulted on projects across numerous industries, such as retails, consumer products, transportation, chemical, e-commerce, payment card, banking, pharmaceutical, high tech, electricity, telecommunication, energy, minerals and natural resources. She has worked a wide range of matters involving allegations of monopolization, foreclosure practices, vertical restraints, merger analysis and intellectual property.

In China, Dr. Zhang has testified as an expert witness and submitted expert reports multiple times before the Supreme People’s Court (SPC), provincial higher courts, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), and Shanghai Administration for Market Regulation (SHAMR). She has been giving antitrust economic trainings to SAMR, local AMR, and Supreme People’s Court for their capacity building and assisting antitrust agencies with economic analysis in their merger reviews. She has been the founding editor of the Asia Column and served on the advisory board of the Antitrust Chronicle of Competition Policy International. She has also been featured in Who’s Who Legal: Competition Economists. Dr. Zhang has worked as a visiting researcher at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.

Dr. Zhang holds a PhD in economics from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and a BA in economics from Peking University.