President & Vice President

The Bundeskartellamt is headed by President Andreas Mundt and Vice President Prof. Dr Konrad Ost.

The President of the Bundeskartellamt,
Andreas Mundt

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Andreas Mundt, born on 13 August 1960 in Bonn and married with three children, has been President of the Bundeskartellamt since 2009. Since 2013 he has also been Steering Group Chair of the International Competition Network (ICN).

Andreas Mundt joined the Bundeskartellamt in 2000 and held various positions, including Rapporteur in the 8th Decision Division responsible for cases relating to the banking sector. In 2001 he became Head of the International Unit and in 2005 Head of the General Policy Division.

After studying law and training as a lawyer in Bonn and Lausanne, Andreas Mundt started his career as a desk officer in the task force “New German Länder” at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs in 1991. From 1993 to 2000 he was a desk officer for labour and social law in the parliamentary group of the Free Democratic Party (FDP).

The Vice President of the Bundeskartellamt,
Prof. Dr Konrad Ost

Foto von Konrad Ost, Vizepräsident des Bundeskartellamts — Source: Bundeskartellamt/Bernd Lammel

Prof. Dr Konrad Ost has been Vice President of the Bundeskartellamt since 2015.

Konrad Ost studied law in Heidelberg, Singapore and Cambridge (UK). After joining the Bundeskartellamt in 2000, he held various positions, including Head of the German and European Competition Law Unit from 2004 to 2008 and then Head of the Litigation and Legal Division until 2010. From 2010 to 2015 he was Head of the authority’s General Policy Division.

Since 2015 Konrad Ost has been an honorary professor at the University of Bonn, where he teaches competition law. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Forschungsinstitut für Wirtschaftsverfassung und Wettbewerb e.V. (FIW).

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Tasks & organisational structure

One of the Bundeskartellamt’s main tasks is to enforce the ban on cartels, that is the prohibition to conclude illegal agreements. But the Bundeskartellamt also has many other tasks that help ensure effective protection of competition.

What are those tasks and how is the Bundeskartellamt structured?

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International work

Globalisation is pushing markets closer together and businesses are becoming more international. For this reason, the Bundeskartellamt cooperates closely with competition authorities all over the world, and in particular in the European Union.

What does this international cooperation look like in practice? Who is in charge of which matters and which institutions and organisations are important?

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Events

The Bundeskartellamt also promotes recognition of the principle of competition by hosting conferences and events on topics of competition law and competition economics. At these events practitioners and academics from all over the world come together and exchange views on fundamental and topical issues of competition law.

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