Prof. Patrik Ducrey is titular professor for Swiss and European antitrust law and assistant lecturer for "The Practice of the Antitrust Authorities". He is a graduate of the University of Fribourg, where he also received his doctorate in antitrust law (Dr. iur.). After passing the Zurich bar exam, he worked as a lawyer in Zurich and as a counsel to a trade association. He joined the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission in 1997 and was its Vice Director and Deputy Director until he was appointed Director on August 1, 2018.
Each fall semester, Prof. Ducrey teaches a class on the practice of the antitrust authorities in Switzerland and the EU. It consists largely of case studies with a focus on procedural issues and is aimed at advanced students who have already attended the general lecture on competition law.
