Prof. Dr. Wouter Wils is a Legal Advisor in the Legal Service of the European Commission. He is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, and a former Hearing Officer for competition proceedings at the European Commission. He was educated both as an economist and as a lawyer at Louvain, Utrecht and Harvard. He has represented the European Commission in more than 350 cases before the EU and EFTA Courts, and has acted as Hearing Officer in more than 100 competition cases before the European Commission.