Professor Dr. Dr. Doris Hildebrand is the founder and managing partner of EE&MC - European Economic & Marketing Consultants GmbH, with offices in Munich, Paris, and Vienna. EE&MC has specialized in preparing expert opinions on competition economics in competition law since 1992.
Professor Hildebrand possesses extensive expertise in a wide range of cartel situations, having advised - or is currently advising - more than 200 clients. As a court-certified expert in competition economics (since 2008), Professor Hildebrand is also appointed by judges to provide expert opinions on various competition issues.
Since 2015, Professor Hildebrand has served as a Non-Governmental Adviser (NGA) to the German Federal Cartel Office and, in this capacity, participates in the work of the International Competition Network (ICN). Professor Hildebrand has been active in the ICC's Competition Commission since 2000. In 2023, she was appointed by the ICC to chair the Advisory Committee of the Task Force on Private Antitrust Damages Enforcement.
From 2010 to 2019, she was Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussel). Since 2019, she is teaching at Paris Sorbonne University and conducts research at Paris Nanterre University. Her academic background includes a Master's degree (1987) and a doctorate (1990) in Social and Economic Sciences from the Vienna University of Economics and Business. She earned a second doctorate in Law in 1998 and a LL.M.-degree in 1992 from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. In 1989/90, Professor Hildebrand was a research fellow in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. Professor Hildebrand's academic career also includes four years (1994–1998) as an associate professor at the University of Groningen and one year (1991) as an assistant professor at Maastricht University.
Professor Hildebrand's current specializations and research interests focus on market definition and market power assessment in digital markets, as well as the European consumer welfare concept in EU competition law.
She has published extensively in the field of competition economics, including her book "The Role of Economic Analysis in the EU Competition Rules – The European School," currently in its fourth edition. Given the increasing importance of economic factors, the book is considered a standard work in European competition law. This in-depth economic approach, also known as the European School, is unique and enshrined in EU law. Professor Hildebrand is currently working on the fifth edition of her book, further developing the European school of thought in EU competition law that she founded in 1998.
Professor Hildebrand is married and has four children.