Florian Bien holds the Chair for Global Business Law, International Arbitration Law and Private Law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg since 2011. In addition to that, he acts as the Director of the Würzburg Graduate School Law, Economics, and Society since 2018. Before joining the Würzburg Law School, Professor Bien was a Senior Lecturer at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany (2007 - 2011) and at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France (2004 -2007), where he hold the position of a Maître de conférences associé. He is a regular guest professor of leading French universities, i. e. Aix-Marseille Université, Paris 1 Paris-Panthéon, Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas, Paris Ouest-Nanterre-La Défense, and Sciences Po Paris (Chair Alfred Grosser). He regularly publishes in the field of German and European Competition Law. Florian Bien holds a Master in European and International Law ("Maîtrise en Droit"), University of Aix-Marseille III, France (1999), First and Second State Examination, Tübingen, Germany (2001 and 2003), Doctorate and Habilitation in law, both University of Tübingen (2006 resp. 2011). He is also a co-editor of the Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht (Beck), a journal focusing on competition law, a co-editor of the Münchener Kommentar zum Europäischen Wettbewerbsrecht, an article-by-article commentary on EU competition law and practice (its first volume was also edited in English language as “Brussels commentary”, Sweet & Maxwell, 2008), and a co-editor of the publication series “Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftspolitik” founded by Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker and comprising more than 300 volumes.