Bruce Kobayashi is the Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Professor of Law and Economics at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University School of Law. He served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission from May 2018 to December 2019. He holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (B.S. 1981; M.A. 1982; Ph.D. 1986 (Economics)).