Eleanor M. Fox is a professor of law and is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law. She teaches, writes, lectures and advises on antitrust law, competition policy and globalization, and has a special interest in developing countries and the interrelationship between equality and efficiency.
Eleanor was a partner at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She served as a member of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General of the U.S. Department of Justice (1997-2000) (President Clinton) and as a Commissioner on President Carter’s National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures (1978-79). She has advised numerous younger antitrust jurisdictions including South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania, The Gambia, Indonesia, Russia, Poland and Hungary and the common market COMESA.
Eleanor received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Paris-Dauphine (2009). She was awarded an inaugural Lifetime Achievement award in 2011 by the Global Competition Review for "substantial, lasting and transformational impact on competition policy and/or practice" and lifetime, inaugural or other achievement awards from ASCOLA, AALS Antitrust Section, New York State Bar Antitrust Association, and the American Antitrust Institute.
With Mor Bakhoum, she wrote MAKING MARKETS WORK FOR AFRICA (Oxford 2019). Her other books include US and EU competition casebooks (with Dan Crane and Damien Gerard, respectively), GLOBAL ISSUES IN ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION LAW with Dan Crane, and readings on developing countries and competition with Abel Mateus.
