Dr Amelia Fletcher
Chief Economist and Senior Director of Mergers, Office of Fair Trading

Amelia Fletcher combines two roles at the OFT. She has been Chief Economist since 2001 and became Senior Director of Mergers in late 2008. As Chief Economist, her primary responsibility is to ensure that the economics carried out within the OFT is of high quality and represents state-of-the-art thinking. As Senior Director of Mergers, she heads up the UK's Phase I merger control.

Amelia has presented and written on a variety of competition policy issues. She was previously an economic consultant at Frontier Economics (1999-2001) and London Economics (1994-1999). She has a DPhil, MPhil and BA(Hons) from Oxford University.