John is the Professor of Financial Economics at Warwick Business School (WBS), University Of Warwick. In October 2017 John also became a Panel Member for the UK Competition and Markets Authority (Government press release). Prior to his joining the CMA panel he was the Associate Dean for Executive Education at WBS and he is now the Associate Dean for the Bank of England Partnership with the University of Warwick. John is also a CEPR Research Fellow. Between 2012 and 2013 John was Non-Executive Director of OXIP: Oxford Investment Partners. Between 2004 and 2013 John was a Tenured University Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford and he was the Heyman-Moritz Official Student (Fellow) of Economics at Christ Church. John’s research interests are in Pricing Strategy, and the economic causes of malpractice. At Warwick Business School, John is the lead academic responsible for the entirety of the strategic partnership between the Bank of England and the University of Warwick, and a member of the Senior Management Group (the WBS Exec Board). At the CMA John has served on the inquiry group for the merger of NPower/SSE (electricity and gas), Sainsbury's/Asda (groceries), Illumina/Pacific Biosciences (DNA sequencing), and FNZ/GBST (Investment Management for Retail Clients). The Sainsbury's/Asda case received more than the usual attention from antitrust professionals (Allen&Overy example).

John was educated at both Oxford and Cambridge, studying Mathematics followed by Economics. He remains an Associate Member of the Oxford-Man Institute at the University of Oxford, and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford University. John is also Treasurer of the Blackfriars Overseas Aid Trust (charity number 288585).  

The cases John has served on at the Competition and Markets Authority of the UK are listed on the Media tab above.