Dr Andrea Katharina Gideon
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow
1 August 2019 - 31 July 2020

Andrea is a permanent member of academic staff at the University of Liverpool. She adjourned this position from August 2015 to February 2017 to pursue a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the National University of Singapore jointly funded by the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business (EWBCLB) and the Competition and Consumer Commission Singapore (CCCS) during which time she was also appointed a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network by CCCS. From August 2018 to July 2019 she was again seconded to work on another research project at EWBCLB. Before joining Liverpool, Andrea received her PhD from the University of Leeds which she passed without corrections and which was shortlisted (top five) for the Jean Blondel PhD Prize 2015. An extended and up-dated version has been published as a monograph in 2017 (A Gideon 'Higher Education Institutions in the EU: Between Competition and Public Service' (Springer/TMC Asser 2017)). Andrea has published widely in the topic area of her PhD research (EU competition law influences on higher education and research) and advised UK public sector organisations on related issues. However, since her postdoc, competition law in ASEAN has become another research focus. In this context, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Malaya in March 2018 for which had been awarded competitive funding from the University of Liverpool's Early Career Researcher Fund. Andrea is now, next to her work for the University of Liverpool, an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at EWBCLB to work on a research project on competition law reform in ASEAN with Ass Prof Dr Burton Ong.

Research areas

As part of her research on competition law in ASEAN, Andrea has worked on competition law and public services in ASEAN (during her postdoc) and comparative legal research on competition law in ASEAN (as Research Fellow) which included developing a new culturally informed method for studying competition law transplants. Work building on these two projects continues till today. As Adjunct Senior Research Fellow she works with Ass Prof Dr Burton Ong on a project regarding competition law reform in ASEAN. The project contains two components; 1) Navigating multiple national competition law regimes in ASEAN and 2) Reforming national competition law regimes in ASEAN – National vs Regional Goals?. As part of the first component a survey study on the competition compliance experience by private sector stakeholders is currently in the process of being undertaken.