Orit acts as a special consultant to Epstein Rosenblum Maoz )ERM) in the areas of competition law (including European Community competition law), regulation, consumer protection and fair trading.

Orit has a Ph.D. in Competition Law from King’s College London. Her thesis titled "Consumer Participation in Competition Policy" was supervised by Professor Richard Whish. In addition, Orit has an LLM from Tel-Aviv University and an LLB and BA in Business Administration from the Interdisciplinary Centre in Herzeliya.

Between the years 2008-2009 Orit was a research affiliate Oxford University at the Oxford Centre for Competition Law and Policy.

Prior to joining Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM) Orit worked at the legal department of the Israeli Antitrust Authority as a member of the telecommunication and basic industries team and was in addition in charge of the areas of intellectual property, professional unions and the postal market.

Orit also advises public authorities and consumer organisations in Israel and abroad. In this framework, Orit advised Consumers International, an international consumer organisation which consists of over 230 consumer organizations, regarding a project which was funded by the European Commission concerning empowerment of consumer organisations in competition policy and advised the Israeli Ministry of Trade and Industry Committee mandated to establish a new fair trading authority in Israel. Orit lectures regularly on her areas of expertise in various forums.

Orit general research interests are Competition Law, Regulation, Consumer Protection and Fair Trading. In particular, Orit is interested in the topics of consumer participation in competition policy, institutional design of enforcement authorities and enforcement tools, public participation and consultation mechanisms in policy design, consumer empowerment, private enforcement, stakeholders theory, the tension between regulation and competition, Regulatory Impact Analysis, comparative law, civil society, capacity building and competition and development.

Orit speaks Hebrew, English and French.

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