To serve consumers by promoting competition: working at the French Competition Authority

Résumé

Pascale Déchamps is Head of unit (Rapporteure générale adjointe) at the French competition authority, in charge of antitrust cases in the digital and telecom sectors. Since joining the Autorité in January 2021, she worked with her team on the decision not to impose interim measures on Apple in March 2021 in the context of the launch of the App-tracking-transparency prompt by Apple, and on the settlement decision fining Google €220M and accepting commitments in June 2021, among others. Before joining the Autorité, she was a partner and head of office in an economic consulting firm and a non-governmental adviser to the Autorité. She graduated in 2004 with a Msc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Msc in statistics and econometrics from the Toulouse University.