2019 Global Forum on Competition
5-6 December 2019 
OECD, Paris
The Global Forum brings together high-level competition officials from over 100 authorities and organisations worldwide to debate a wide range of key and emerging competition issues including the link between competition policy and other cornerstones of economic development. Debates at the 2019 forum will focus on competition under fire, competition provisisions in trade agreements, merger control in dynamic markets, competition for the market and Digital case lab.
Jean Tirole, Honorary Chairman of the Jean-Jacques Laffont-Toulouse School of Economics Foundation and chairman of the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) will deliver a Keynote address at the Opening session of the Forum.
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Participation
Over 100 competition authorities, international organisations and invited experts worldwide participate in the Global Forum every year. Participation is by invitation only and restricted to officials from competition authorities, government agencies and international/ regional organisations.
Representatives of the business community and trade movements can contribute to the discussions through the Business and Advisory Committee to the OECD (BIAC), the Trade Union Advisory Committee (TUAC). The Global Forum also welcomes the participation of Consumers International each year, an important voice for consumers particularly in developing countries. Requests for information can be sent to angelique.servin@oecd.org.
Programme outline
Day 1｜5 December 2019
- Opening session
- Competition under fire
- Group photo
- Lunch break
- Competition provisions in trade agreements
- Networking event
Day 2｜6 December 2019
- Merger control in dynamic markets
- Break-out sessions
- Wrap-up session
- Lunch break
- Competition for-the-market
- Digital case lab
- Other business and future work
For more details on each session, click on the name of the discussion.
2018 Keynote speech
OECD Competition on Youtube
About the Forum
Previous Forums
Since 2001, the OECD Global Forum on Competition has gathered high-level competition officials to discuss a wide variety of competition-related topics.
2018 TOPICS
- How can competition contribute to fairer societies?
- Gender and competition
- Keynote address by Margrethe Vestager
- Benefits and challenges of regional competition agreements
- Investigative powers in practives
- Competition law and state-owned enterprises
2018 Programme • Photos
Presentations • Full set of documents
