Jeremy Sandford has over a decade of antitrust experience in both the public and private sectors. From 2014-2021, he was an economist at the Federal Trade Commission, where he led dozens of merger and conduct investigations, in industries involving tech platforms, chemicals, oil & gas, health care, consumer products, and semiconductors. He served as the FTC’s expert in relation to a proposed merger involving two alcohol distributors, which was abandoned by the parties. From 2019-2021 he served as an economic advisor to former commissioner Christine Wilson; in this capacity, he advised on most antitrust matters before the Commission and worked on the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines.
Since moving to private practice in 2021, Dr. Sandford has provided expert services to dozens of clients across an array of industries, including tech platforms, advertising, consumer packaged goods, health care, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, payment services, chemicals, and distribution services. He has made presentations to the Federal Trade Commission, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Transportation on behalf of clients, and has been retained by the Federal Trade Commission as an outside expert.
Dr. Sandford has written extensively in the fields of industrial organization, antitrust economics, and applied microeconomics. His articles have been published in journals including the RAND Journal of Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Review of Industrial Organization, Journal of Competition Law and Economics, and George Mason Law Review. Dr. Sandford has extensive teaching experience, having taught classes at Johns Hopkins University and, prior to joining the Federal Trade Commission, in his capacity as a professor at the University of Kentucky, where he taught PhD and undergraduate level courses on industrial organization, microeconomic theory, statistics, and the economics of crime.