John Kwoka is the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He recently served as Chief Economic Advisor to Chair Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission. Kwoka’s recent research has focused on merger and remedies policy and has been widely cited in the popular press as well as in academic journals. Kwoka’s most recent book on this subject is CONTROLLING MERGERS AND MARKET POWER: A Program for Reviving Antitrust in America. His earlier book, Mergers, Merger Control, and Remedies in the United States: A Retrospective Analysis was published in 2015 by MIT Press and won the Cohen Award for the Best Antitrust Book. He is also co-editor of the new Antitrust Economics in a Time of Upheaval, after having co-edited The Antitrust Revolution through seven editions. Kwoka has worked at the U.S. antitrust and regulatory agencies and serves as adviser or consultant to them and to those of other countries and international agencies.

Kwoka previously served at the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department, the Federal Communications Commission, and once before at the FTC. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors and Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, a member of the Academic Advisory Board of Open Markets Institute, a Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network, a member of the Advisory Council to the Competition Commission of Mauritius, the Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization, Vice President of Southern Economic Association, and President of the Industrial Organization Society. Kwoka regularly speaks at academic and policy conferences, at congressional and regulatory hearings, and with competition agencies in other countries.