Christian Koenig (Professor, Dr. iur., LL.M.), born in 1961, is one of the directors of the Center for European Integration Studies (since April 1, 1999) – www.zei.de – and a member of the faculty of law of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn.

From 1980 to 1985 he studied law in Berlin and Mainz and graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1986 with a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree. Having completed his dissertation in 1988 he took the second state examination (~bar exam), after which he was hired by an international law firm. Intent on pursuing an academic career he worked on his postdoctoral qualification to become a professor (Habilitation), which he finished in 1993 at the Philipps-University Marburg. Since then he held professorships of law at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz (1994-1995), the Philipps-University Marburg (1995-1999) and finally the University of Bonn (since 1999).

Christian Koenig´s academic focus is mainly EU internal market law, the administrative regulation of trade, EU competition law and the legal regulation of network industries. He is the academic director of the interdisciplinary postgraduate degree programme Master of European Regulation of Network Industries (MERNI) – www.merni.de .

His publications, research programmes and reviews deal primarily with EU internal market law, state aid- and public procurement law, infrastructure subsidies , telecommunications law, energy law , postal law , the regulation of gambling and pharmaceutical law . The complex regulatory issues raised in his work most often require an interdisciplinary understanding for an economic approach.

Christian Koenig attended several major projects like multi-functional soccer stadiums, conference centers, racetracks, concert halls and pipeline-infrastructure. He was responsible for all questions regarding EU State aid- and public procurement law and corresponding subsidies, based on his legal expertise.

He is also appointed representative of litigants in proceedings before the European Court of Justice and the European Court.

He advises the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) and the European Commission in matters of legislation or regulation regarding his areas of expertise.

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