Martin Janda is Staff Director and Senior Advisor at the Austrian Federal Competition Authority since January 2019. He was General Director for Personnel and Legal Matters in the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs from 2002 to 2018. Janda previously served as advisor in the personal office of the Vice Chancellor, responsible for legal matters and the public administration and was head of different divisions in the Ministry of Economic Affairs. He is a juris doctor and graduated from the University of Vienna, Faculty of Law.