Damien Gerard serves as a case handler in the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission and is an academic affiliated with the University of Louvain (UCL, Belgium) and the College of Europe (Bruges and Natolin), where he also heads the Global Competition Law Center (GCLC).  Trained at the University of Louvain, the College of Europe and NYU Law School, he previously clerked for Judge Lenaerts of the European Court of Justice and practised with Cleary Gottlieb LLP for more than 10 years.  Damien Gerard has published and spoken extensively on EU competition law enforcement, substantive antitrust law, EU State aids law and general EU law, including internal market and institutional matters.