Kirsten Edwards-Warren is a Founding Partner of Econic Partners. Previously, she spent over ten years at Compass Lexecon, serving as Co-Head of its EMEA practice during 2024 and Deputy Head prior to that. Before joining Compass Lexecon, Kirsten served as Director of Economics at both the Office of Fair Trading and Competition Commission (predecessors to the UK CMA), and worked as an economic consultant in another firm. Kirsten is listed among the most highly regarded “Global Elite Thought Leaders” in Competition Economics by Lexology Index where she is ‘lauded by sources for being a “smart and creative economist who has excellent client management skills”’. In 2024, Global Competition Review awarded her “Economist of the Year”. Kirsten’s recent cases include the Epic Games vs Google litigation (Australia) in which she testified as the economic expert for Epic. Recent mergers in which she worked for the merger parties include SES/Intelsat, IBM/Hashicorp, Altrad/Stork, JBT/Marel, Saint/Gobain/Fosroc, Pfizer/Seagen, Broadcom/VMware, Nielsen/GfK, Culligan/Waterlogic, Saint Gobain/GCP, Parker Hannifin/Meggitt, Huws Gray/Grafton, Aon/WTW, Compass Group/Fazer, and ATG/Live Auctioneers. She has worked on various UK and EC antitrust investigations including the CMA investigation into the supply of electric vehicle chargepoints.