Mark R. Meador was sworn in April 16, 2025 as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission.

Meador most recently worked in private practice and as a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation Tech Policy Center. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Chief Counsel for Antitrust and Competition Policy for Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. During the first Trump Administration, Meador worked as a trial attorney in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. He began his career as an attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition.

Meador earned his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center and his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago.

Elizabeth Odette is Assistant Attorney General in the Consumer, Wage and Antitrust Division of the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office and is Chair of the Antitrust Task Force at the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). Elizabeth joined the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office after more than 15 years in private practice at the Minneapolis law firm Lockridge Grindal Nauen. Much of her career in private practice was spent pursuing potential violations of the federal antitrust laws on behalf of nationwide classes. Additionally, she has represented classes and individuals related to consumer, product liability, and securities laws. She has had the privilege to be a part of more than a dozen trial teams in these areas. For more than a decade, Elizabeth has provided pro-bono services representing youth clients in foster care in child protection cases through the Children’s Law Center of Minnesota. Elizabeth received her BA and JD from the University of St. Thomas Law School.

Ashley Walters is an Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust and Nonprofit Enforcement Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia. Her work focuses on antitrust matters, where she leads and contributes to investigations and enforcement actions across a range of industries, including digital markets and emerging technologies.

Prior to joining the Office of the Attorney General, Ashley practiced as a litigation associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP, representing companies in investigations and in high-stakes antitrust and complex commercial litigation. She also maintained an active pro bono practice.

Ashley received her B.A. from Haverford College and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she served as an Associate Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. Ashley also earned a Certificate in Management from the Wharton School of Business.

Jana Seidl serves as FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson’s Senior Advisor for Competition and International Affairs. In her role, Jana is the Chairman’s principal advisor on competition policy and helps lead the agency on critical decisions regarding antitrust law enforcement, such as case selection, second requests, merger settlements, litigation, and compliance matters.  

Jana joined the FTC and then-Commissioner Ferguson’s office in June 2024. She previously worked for nearly a decade in private practice, where she focused on both defense and plaintiff side litigation, including trial work. Jana also advised and represented clients on mergers, a variety of competition and compliance matters, as well as internal and government competition-related investigations. She has published articles on a wide variety of issues, including due process initiatives and international convergence, IP/antitrust policy, and generic drug competition. Jana holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and anthropology from the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College and a master’s degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University. She received her law degree from George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School.

Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago, and Counsel, MoloLamken LLP. In 2022-2023, he served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. He has written extensively about antitrust law and related topics. His most recent books are How Antitrust Failed Workers (Oxford); Radical Markets (Princeton) (with Glen Weyl), which was named a best book of 2018 by The Economist; and Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future of Bailouts (Chicago), which was named a best book of 2018 by The Financial Times. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council of the American Law Institute. At MoloLamken, Professor Posner has litigated numerous antitrust cases and complex commercial disputes.

Before joining the law school in 1999, William E. Kovacic was the George Mason University Foundation Professor at the George Mason University School of Law. From January 2006 to October 2011, he was a member of the Federal Trade Commission and chaired the agency from March 2008 to March 2009. He was the FTC’s General Counsel from June 2001 to December 2004. In 2011 he received the FTC’s Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award for Lifetime Achievement. 

Since August 2013, Professor Kovacic has served as a Non-Executive Director with the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority. From January 2009 to September 2011, he was Vice-Chair for Outreach for the International Competition Network. He has advised many countries and international organizations on antitrust, consumer protection, government contracts, and the design of regulatory institutions. 

At GW, Professor Kovacic has taught antitrust, contracts, and government contracts. He is co-editor (with Ariel Ezrachi) of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement. His publications since returning to GW in 2011 include “Good Agency Practice and the Implementation of Competition Law” in European Yearbook of International Economic Law (Christoph Hermann ed. 2013); “Antitrust in High-Tech Industries: Improving the Federal Antitrust Joint Venture” in George Mason Law Review (2012); “Behavioral Economics: Implications for Regulatory Agency Behavior” in Journal of Regulatory Economics (2012) (with James Cooper); “Competition Agency Design: What’s on the Menu?” in European Competition Journal (2012) (with David Hyman); “Plus Factors and Agreement in Antitrust Law” in Michigan Law Review (2011) (with Robert Marshall, Leslie Marx & Halbert White); “Ensuring Integrity and Competition and Public Procurement Markets: A Dual Challenge for Good Governance” in The WTO Regime on Government Procurement: Challenge and Reform (Sue Arrowsmith & Robert Anderson, eds. 2011) (with Robert Anderson & Anna Caroline Mueller); “The International Competition Network: Its Past, Current, and Future Role” inMinnesota Journal of International Law (2011) (with Hugh Hollman); “The William Humphrey and Abram Myers Years: The FTC from 1925 to 1929” in Antitrust Law Journal (2011) (with Marc Winerman); Professor Kovacic also is co-author (with Andrew Gavil & Jonathan Baker) of Antitrust Law in Perspective: Cases, Concepts and Problems in Competition Policy (2d ed. 2008) and Antitrust Law & Economics in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2004) (with Ernest Gellhorn & Stephen Calkins).

Dan serves as an Attorney Advisor to FTC Commissioner Mark Meador, where he provides counsel on antitrust enforcement and competition policy matters, he is based in Washington. Before joining the FTC, he practiced in Baker McKenzie’s Antitrust & Competition group, advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border transactions, government investigations, compliance strategies, and antitrust-IP issues. He also served as lead counsel in litigation representing both plaintiffs and defendants. He holds a J.D. and Master of Public Policy from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in Economics and Business from Brandeis University.

Andreas Mundt, born on 13 August 1960 in Bonn and married with three children, has been President of the Bundeskartellamt since 2009. From 2013 to May 2025 he was also Steering Group Chair of the International Competition Network (ICN).

Andreas Mundt joined the Bundeskartellamt in 2000 and held various positions, including Rapporteur in the 8th Decision Division responsible for cases relating to the banking sector. In 2001 he became Head of the International Unit and in 2005 Head of the General Policy Division.

After studying law and training as a lawyer in Bonn and Lausanne, Andreas Mundt started his career as a desk officer in the task force “New German Länder” at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs in 1991. From 1993 to 2000 he was a desk officer for labour and social law in the parliamentary group of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

Carlota Reyners is a Director in the Directorate General for Competition since 1st August 2023. She is in charge of the enforcement of antitrust, merger and state aid rules in the field of information technology, communications and media. In 2024, she was detached during two months to the Cabinet of the President of the Commission as acting Digital adviser.

She previously worked for 8 years in DG CONNECT (the Directorate general for communications networks, content and technology) in charge of policy and legislative proposals in the electronic communications sector, leading legislative projects such as review of the regulatory framework for telecoms resulting in the 2018 European electronic communications Code or the 2030 Digital Decade Policy Programme.

Between 2012 and 2014, she was Member of cabinet of Vice-President Neelie Kroes, Commissioner responsible for Digital Agenda.

She has previously worked as case handler in the Commission’s Competition Directorate General as well as a competition lawyer in a leading European telecommunications company and a Brussels based international law firm. She holds a law degree from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a Master in European law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Alexandre Barreto de Souza is the General Superintendent of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense – CADE, after serving the term of president of this Council from 2017 to 2021. He has a master’s degree in public administration from Universidade de Brasília and is currently pursuing a doctorate in political science at Universidade de Lisboa. A civil servant since 1993, he has worked in bodies of the Federal Government of Brazil such as the National Treasury, the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service, the Senate, and the Court of Accounts. Within the scope of his activities in the civil service are government management and accounting, control of procurements and contracts, tackling fraud and corruption in government, and fighting cartels in government procurements.

Lewis leads MLex’s editorial output, having developed the company’s editorial approach from its origin through its expansion to a global news agency. He has an unrivalled reputation for breaking stories and providing analysis on complex legal disputes before regulators and courts around the globe. He has been instrumental in developing and leading MLex’s unrivalled coverage of competition policy, litigation, regulation and international investigations. A graduate of Oxford University, Lewis has played a defining role in MLex’s editorial direction, expansion and public profile.

Daniel Guarnera was most recently chief of the Civil Conduct Task Force at the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division. During his tenure, the task force filed significant enforcement actions in technology, agriculture, and labor markets. In the first Trump Administration, Guarnera served as a trial attorney and counsel to the Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division. Guarnera was previously special counsel to U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley. He also worked in private practice and clerked for the Honorable Diane S. Sykes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Guarnera holds bachelor’s degrees from American University and law and business administration degrees from the University of Virginia.

Khushita Vasant covers US antitrust enforcement and litigation at MLex US. She spent a few years in Brussels, writing about standard essential patent litigation, and antitrust in the tech and digital sectors in the EU and UK. Khushita spent more than 16 years as a correspondent, writing for one of the world’s biggest newspapers and financial newswires focusing on competition law, monetary policy, fixed income and currency markets. Multi-lingual with fluency in English and several Indian languages. Khushita has published in The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, and MarketWatch, among others with coverage across datelines from Mumbai and London to Washington D.C. and Berlin.