Lars-Hendrik Röller
President of ESMT
Professor Lars-Hendrik Röller took over as President of ESMT European School of Management and Technology on September 1, 2006.
Lars-Hendrik Röller’s academic career began at the Department of Economics at University of Pennsylvania, where he also held a position at the Institute for Law and Economics. In 1987 Lars-Hendrik Röller was appointed professor at the business school INSEAD in France, a position he held until 1999. In 1994 Lars-Hendrik Röller became the Director of the research unit “Competitiveness and Industrial Change” at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB), Europe’s largest social science research center. In 1995 he was appointed Professor for Industrial Economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. From September 2003 until taking up the presidency at ESMT, Lars-Hendrik Röller was the first Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission, where he was responsible for the economic analysis in merger control, cartel investigations, market abuse and State Aid control.
In addition, Lars-Hendrik Röller has been a Visiting Scholar and Professor at the Autònoma de Barcelona University, New York University and Stanford University, among others. He is a member of various academic associations. He was President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics (EARIE) from 2005-2007 and was Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London from 1996-2003. In 2002 he was awarded the Gossen Award, and in 2004 he was appointed Fellow of the European Economic Association. Lars-Hendrik Röller is a non-resident senior fellow at Bruegel, a Brussels-based think tank. He has advised many international companies and organizations as well as various governments on the topics of competition, strategy and regulation.
Lars-Hendrik Röller is married and has three children.
Selected Publications
- Röller, L.-H., and Steen, F. (2006). On the Workings of a Cartell: Evidence from the Norwegian Cement Industry. American Economic Review 96 (1): 321–338.
- Röller, L.-H. (2005). Economic Analysis and Competition Policy Enforcement in Europe. Modelling European Mergers: Theory, Competition and Case Studies. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
- Röller, L.-H., and Mohnen, P. (2005). Complementarity in Innovation Policy. European Economic Review 49 (6): 1431–1450.
- Röller, L.-H., and Waverman, L. (2001). Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach. American Economic Review 91(4): 909–923.
- Röller, L.-H., and Neven, D. J. (2000). The Allocation of Jurisdiction in International Antitrust. European Economic Review 44(4–6): 845–855.
- Röller, L.-H., and Wey, C. (2001). Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft in der neuen Weltwirtschaft. Berlin: edition sigma.
