Simone Kohnz

Dr Simone Kohnz is a Director at E.CA Economics. She has nearly 20 years of experience in economic consulting, advising clients from a wide range of industries, in all fields of competition policy and across a number of jurisdictions including Germany, Austria, the European Union, the UK, Spain and Portugal.

In recent years, Simone specialised in the quantification of damages in private litigation cases. She has advised clients and drafted expert witness reports for European, German, Austrian and Portuguese cartel and information exchange cases in a variety of industries including retail banking, cosmetics, trucks, sugar, timber, banking cards, pumpers and turntable ladders, district heating, fast-moving consumer goods and de-icing salt. Simone has served as a testifying expert in front of German and Spanish courts in numerous private damage litigation cases. Simone has also acted as a court expert for German lower courts and is a certified expert for the cartel court in Vienna. She has given a number of trainings on damage quantification in programmes for European judges.

Prior to joining E.CA Economics, Simone worked for another competition economics consultancy in London. She holds a PhD in bargaining theory from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.