Gregory Werden
Senior Economic Counsel, Antitrust Division (Retired)
U.S. Department of Justice
Gregory J. Werden retired in 2019 after 42 years at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. At the Justice Department, he was involved in preparing numerous sets of enforcement guidelines and drafting over a hundred briefs filed in the appellate courts or the Supreme Court. He is the only Antitrust Division employee ever to be awarded the Department’s Mary C. Lawton Lifetime Service Award. He continues to contribute to antitrust scholarship and recently published a book titled The Foundations of Antitrust: Events, Ideas, and Doctrines (Carolina Academic Press).
Recent Publications
Creative Discussion Podcast: Greg Werden on the DOJ, Merger Guidelines and the Evolving Role of Economists
Joseph V. Coniglio hosts the third episode of a new antitrust speaker series and interviews longtime antitrust scholar and retired DOJ economist Greg Werden. They discuss Werden’s path from chemistry to economics and his four-decade career at DOJ, discussing both constants and changes in antitrust enforcement.
Recent Events and Presentations
A Strange Vibration? The Uncertain Future of California Antitrust Law
Watch now for a virtual panel featuring leading experts who will discuss the future of California's antitrust laws, their implications for national innovation and competition, and how these developments fit into the broader antitrust policy debate.
Dynamic Antitrust Discussion Series: “Has Economic Concentration Really Increased?”
Join ITIF for a discussion on the accuracy of the narrative put forward and whether or not market concentration has, indeed, increased with ITIF's Julie Carlson & Robert D. Atkinson, Nicholas Trachter of the Federal Reserve of Richmond, & former DOJ official, Gregory Werden.
