Heike Schweitzer - Biography#

Heike Schweitzer studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau where she graduated in the 1st State exam in law. Thereafter she moved to Hamburg for the clerkship period which she terminated by the 2nd State exam in law in Hamburg, before starting work at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law as a research assistant of the director emeritus Mestmäcker. The inspiration she got from him was highly influential for her further academic carreer which focused very much on legal issues of the economic order, viewed in a national as well as European and comparative perspective.

In her subsequent career she has been deeply involved in the scholarly treatment of competition law. This started at the European University Institute and continued at Mannheim University where she was appointed Director of the Mannheim Center for Competition and Innovation. At the Free University of Berlin she simultaneously was Director of the Institute for German and European Economic Law, Competition Law and Regulatory Law. In 2018, she was moved to the Humboldt University of Berlin. She served as special advisor to Commissioner Vestager from April 2018 to March 2019 and co-chaired the German Governmental Commission on "Competition 4.0" from September 2018 to September 2019.