Michael G. AGUINALDO
Chairperson
Philippine Competition Commission
Mr. Michael G. Aguinaldo is currently the Chairperson of the Philippine Competition Commission (PCC), only the second Chairperson since the establishment of the PCC in 2016. Prior to his appointment to the PCC, he was Chairperson of the Commission on Audit, the supreme audit institution of the Philippines, from 2015 to 2022, and was concurrently External Auditor of the World Health Organization, the Food & Agriculture Organization, the International Labour Organization, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. He was the Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Office of the President of the Philippines from 2011 to 2015.
Before his foray into the public service, Mr. Aguinaldo worked as a law practitioner in the private sector from 1992 to 2011, including 17 years with the law firm Romulo Mabanta Buenaventura Sayoc & de los Angeles where he was a partner and member of the Executive Committee.
Mr. Aguinaldo obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1992 from the Ateneo de Manila University School of Law, where he became a member of the faculty from 1994 to 2015. He holds a Master of Laws degree with special concentration in International Economic Law from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Dave ANDERSON
Managing Partner in Brussels
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
Mr. Dave Anderson is a partner in Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s Antitrust & Competition Law team and is the founding and Managing Partner of the firm’s Brussels office. He is qualified to practice in Belgium (A-List), the United Kingdom and the United States. Mr. Anderson has practiced international competition and regulatory law for over 25 years. His practice focuses on EU and international aspects of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restrictive practices, cartels and abuses of dominant positions. He also advises on EU regulatory law, the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, foreign direct investment and public affairs. He advises clients worldwide across a range of industry sectors and has specialist expertise in the technology, energy, transportation, mining/minerals, chemicals, agriculture and consumer goods sectors.
Mr. Anderson is also very active on the policy side of international antitrust. He has served as a non-governmental adviser to the International Bar Association and the European Commission on the work of the International Competition Network (ICN) since the ICN’s founding in 2001. He has also advised the United Nation Conference on Trade and Development and national competition agencies on competition law reform and agency capacity building in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America since 1998.
Mr. Anderson is Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Liège and a Senior Researcher (Competition Law) at the VUB/ Brussels School of Governance. Dave is also recognized by his clients and peers as a leading international competition lawyer in Global Competition Review, Chambers Global and Legal 500 EMEA.