Eleanor M. Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, New York University School of Law, and Mor Bakhoum, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition

Eleanor M. Fox is the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University School of Law, where she specializes in markets and economic development, and national and international competition policy with a focus on developing countries and Europe. She was a partner in the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She served as a member of President Carter's antitrust commission and President Clinton's international competition advisory committee. Mor Bakhoum is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich, Germany. He teaches the module "Competition Law in Emerging Markets" at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center (MIPLC). He is also a lecturer at the Master II program in IP, co-organized by WIPO, OAPI and the University of Yaoundé II. In fall 2014 Mor Bakhoum spent a semester at NYU at the Jean Monnet Center as an Emile Noel Fellow.

"It is rare to come across a competition law book which is simultaneously generous in its outlook, original in its methodology and classical in its approach. "Making Markets Work For Africa" (Oxford University Press, 2019) written by Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum, two of the world most-renowned experts on comparative competition law issues, is just such a book and it is a must read for anyone interested in the development of competition laws in developing countries." - Frederic Jenny, Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris, and Chairman, OECD Competition Committee

"Clear and creative ways in which democratising markets can aid meaningful development in Africa..." - Albie Sachs, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

"Making Markets Work for Africa: Markets, Developments and Competition Law in Sub-Saharan Africa provides significant insight into its subject matter and the topics covered. ... the content provides a concise but necessary introduction to the social, political and economic challenges which underpin most sub-Saharan jurisdictions. Readers who may not be familiar with the jurisdictions covered in the book will find this useful for purposes of contextualising the competition policy debate and the nuances which underpin this debate. ... We congratulate the authors on this important and well researched text." - African Antitrust & Competition Law News and Analysis

"rich in its analysis and presentation ... the book is a must for high level policy makers, and policy influencers, of low and middle income countries, in order for them to draw an effective development roadmap ushering higher growth along with equity. The book can also be insightful for policy researchers in the developed world who are grappling to find solution to increasing inequality in their own societies." - Pradeep S Mehta, Concurrences

"Eleanor Fox and Mor Bakhoum's new book, Making Markets Work for Africa (Oxford University Press, 2019), is a tour de force study of the interaction between markets, development, and competition law in sub-Saharan Africa. It is a must read for anyone interested in competition law in developing jurisdictions." - Michal Gal, Antitrust & Competition Policy Blog

"The impressive canvass of this book will stimulate debate among policy makers as it fills a significant gap in the existing literature which will be of great assistance to teachers of competition law and to adjudicative authorities seeking imaginative ways of developing a competition jurisprudence that will promote development in their countries." - Professor Dennis Davis, Judge President, Competition Appeal Court, South Africa