Benno Buehler is a vice president at Charles River Associates. Previously, he was a senior member of the European Commission’s DG Competition Chief Economist Team. With more than 15 years of competition experience, Benno specialises in antitrust and intellectual property matters, especially where the two issues are combined. He has been retained as an economic expert in several SEP litigation cases and advised in SEP licensing negotiations. He also conducted the economic analysis in several antitrust matters, such as the landmark Samsung and Motorola standard essential patent cases. In addition, he was involved in multiple policy initiatives, such as the Commission’s overhaul of the Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation. He was also the lead economist on several high-profile horizontal and non-horizontal mergers, including Qualcomm/NXP and Google/Motorola, where IP was an important consideration. His experience covers a wide range of sectors, including digital platforms, mobile telecommunications and broadband, high-tech, commodities and raw materials, paper, energy and transport. His academic work has been published in scientific journals such as the Journal of Industrial Economics and the European Economic Review. He has also published on competition policy in the Review of Industrial Organization, as well as in Competition Law & Policy Debate. Benno regularly speaks at IP and competition conferences, universities and research institutes and is a lecturer at the Brussels School of Competition.