Vincent Verouden

Dr Vincent Verouden is a Director at the Brussels office of E.CA Economics. Until October 2014, he worked at DG Competition of the European Commission, in the last two years (2012-2014) as Deputy Chief Economist.

Vincent, a Dutch natonal, joined DG Competition in January 2000. Until 2004, he worked in the Commission's Merger Task Force (MTF), where he was involved in the review of mergers and acquisitions across a broad range of sectors. He was also one of the authors of the Horizontal Merger Guidelines (published in 2004). Subsequently, Vincent worked for DG Competition's Chief Economist Team (CET), notably in the area of state aid control, where he contributed to the economic analysis of individual cases as well as to the development of state aid policy (e.g. State Aid Action Plan). From 2012 to 2014, he was deeply involved in the various reform proposals in the context of the Commission's State Aid Modernisation (SAM) programme. During his time at the CET, he further had key roles in the Non-Horizontal Merger Guidelines (2008) and in the Commission's sector inquiry in the pharmaceutical sector (2008-2009).

His current consulting activities span the fields of antitrust, merger control and state aid control.

Vincent is an extramural fellow at TILEC (Tilburg Law and Economics Center, Tilburg University) and a faculty member of the Brussels School of Competition (BSC).