Stéphane Dewulf

Stéphane Dewulf is an Executive Vice President and head of Compass Lexecon’s Brussels office.

Stéphane specialises in competition economics and has extensive experience advising clients and leading teams on complex merger control cases and antitrust investigations before the European Commission, the UK CMA, the French Competition Authority, and other competition authorities across Europe and beyond.

Stéphane’s merger experience includes several Phase 2 investigations, such as Mars/Kellanova and MOL/OMV Slovenija by the European Commission, Arcelik/Whirlpool by the UK CMA and TF1/M6 by the French Autorité de la Concurrence, in addition to multiple transactions with multi-jurisdictional reviews.

Prior to his current role at Compass Lexecon, Stéphane worked at other economic consultancy firms, as well as at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition. His work focused on merger control and antitrust investigations across a range of sectors, including digital, IT, media, telecommunications, and energy.

Stéphane holds a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Namur, an MA in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and an MSc in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics