William Kovacic

William Evan Kovacic (born 1952) is an American lawyer and legal scholar who serves a professor at George Washington University Law School and the director of their Competition Law Center. He is a Non-Executive director of the UK Competition and Markets Authority. He was the Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission from January 4, 2006 to October 3, 2011. President George W. Bush designated him to serve as FTC Chairman on March 30, 2008.[1] President Barack Obama designated Jon Leibowitz as Chairman on March 2, 2009, replacing Kovacic. Kovacic replaced Deborah Platt Majoras.[2]

William E. Kovacic
Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission
In office
March 30, 2008 – March 2, 2009
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Preceded byDeborah Platt Majoras
Succeeded byJon Leibowitz
Member of the Federal Trade Commission
In office
January 4, 2006 – October 3, 2011
PresidentGeorge W. Bush
Barack Obama
Preceded byThomas B. Leary
Succeeded byMaureen Ohlhausen
Personal details
Born1952 (age 68–69)
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
Columbia University (JD)

Early years

Kovacic's father worked for the Department of Energy in Washington as a chemical engineer.

Kovacic graduated from the University of Detroit Jesuit High School in 1970. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1974, and received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1978 where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.[3]

Career

Following his term at the FTC, Kovacic returned to George Washington University Law School where he teaches antitrust, contracts, and government contracts. He is the Director of the Competition Law Center at GWU.[4]

Prior to his appointment as Commissioner, Kovacic was the E.K. Gubin Professor of Government Contracts Law at George Washington University Law School, where he began teaching in 1999. He previously taught antitrust law at George Mason University.[5] He was the FTC’s General Counsel from 2001 through the end of 2004. Kovacic earlier worked at the Commission from 1979 to 1983, first with the Bureau of Competition’s Planning Office and later as an attorney advisor to former Commissioner George W. Douglas. After leaving the FTC in 1983, Kovacic was an associate with the Washington, DC, office of Bryan Cave, where he practiced in the firm’s antitrust and government contracts departments, until joining the George Mason University School of Law in 1986.

Earlier in his career, he spent one year on the majority staff of the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, which was chaired by Senator Philip A. Hart.[6]

Since 1992, Kovacic has served as an adviser on antitrust and consumer protection issues to the governments of Armenia, Benin, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guyana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. He also currently serves on the International Committee of the Institute of Competition Law.

Kovacic was appointed as a Non-Executive Director to the UK Competition and Markets Authority on July 15, 2013.[7] He is also a visiting professor at the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College, London.[8]

He lives in Virginia, with his wife, Kathryn Fenton, an antitrust attorney.

See also

References
  1. Federal Trade Commission - Commissioners
  2. "White House taps commissioner William Kovacic to chair FTC". The Mercury News. 2008-03-26. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  3. "KATHRYN FENTON WEDS WILLIAM EVAN KOVACI". The New York Times. 1985-05-19. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  4. "William E. Kovacic". George Washington University Law.
  5. Rowley, James; Runningen, Roger (2008-03-26). "Kovacic Named by Bush to Lead Federal Trade Agency". Bloomberg L.P. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
  6. "Nominations of J. Thomas Rosch and William E. Kovacic to be Commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission" (PDF). Hearing Before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate. US Government Printing Office. 2005-11-14. Retrieved 2009-05-10.
  7. "Non-Executive Director William Kovacic". GOV.UK.
  8. "King's College London - Global Competition Law at King's". Centre for Competition Law.
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