Professors of BSC

Jacques Steenbergen (born in Antwerp in 1949) acted as the president of the Belgian Competition Authority, since its establishment as an independent authority in 2013. From 2007 to 2013, he was Director-general of the directorate general for competition in the Belgian ministry of economic affairs. He teaches competition law at the University of Leuven since 1980. Before joining the competition authority, he was a partner in the Brussels office of Allen & Overy, and has been legal secretary to the President of the Court of Justice under the presidency of Prof. J. Mertens de Wilmars.

He is also a member of the Bureau of the OECD Competition Committee and a member of the board of editors and former editor-in-chief of the Dutch-Belgian European law review SEW. Furthermore, Steenbergen is a member of the scientific committee of the law review Concurrences, member and former president of the Board of the Stichting van het Koninklijk Conservatorium of Brussels (the foundation of the royal academy for music of Brussels), and an honorary member of the Bar  of Brussels (Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten bij de Balie te Brussel). He is a former member of the Brussels and Flemish Bar Councils.

He lectured and gave conferences and served as member of nomination committees or Ph.D. examination committees in institutes and universities in Austria, Belgium, China, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. He also spoke at conferences in Brazil, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Japan, Luxembourg, Portugal, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. He publishes regularly on EU and competition law.

He obtained a Ph.D. at the KU Leuven with Prof. Dr. W. van Gerven on legal remedies and ailing industries (1978). He holds a master’s degree in law from the KU Leuven (1972) and bachelor degrees or equivalent certificates in law, philosophy and economics from the University of Antwerp (UFSIA, 1969).