Simon Roberts

Simon Roberts is a professor of economics at the University of Johannesburg, where he founded the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED), and a Global Practitioner at the University of Strathclyde. Simon has been an economics director at the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the Chief Economist and Manager of the Policy & Research Division at the Competition Commission of South Africa. Simon has advised competition authorities, regulators and governments on competition matters in many developing and middle-income countries, especially in Africa, and he has testified as an expert witness in a number of major cases in South Africa.