Aleksandra Boutin is a Managing Partner at BRG. She is an expert in competition economics with twenty years of experience as an economic consultant, enforcer and academic. She is recognised as a Global Thought Leader in competition economics by Who’s Who Legal and by GCR Women in Antitrust.  Dr Boutin advises clients on a wide range of competition issues in relation to merger and antitrust proceedings before the European Commission (EC), national competition authorities and courts. She is also involved in litigation proceedings in various jurisdictions. Her expertise covers mergers in a wide range of sectors, exclusionary and exploitative abuses, vertical and horizontal agreements, cartel cases, information exchanges, damage calculation and state aid.  She has been particularly active in the digital sector. Prior to joining BRG, Dr Boutin was a founding partner at an economic consultancy Positive Competition and an expert at another global economic consulting firm. She also spent several years as a Policy and Case Scrutiny Officer at the Directorate-General for Competition (DG Comp) of the EC.