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Thomas O. Barnett was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as assistant attorney general of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice on February 10, 2006. Mr. Barnett became the division’s acting assistant attorney general effective June 25, 2005, and previously served as the division’s deputy assistant attorney general for civil enforcement. Prior to joining the Antitrust Division, Mr. Barnett was a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Covington & Burling, where he served as vice chair of the firm’s Antitrust and Consumer Protection Practice Group. At Covington & Burling, Mr. Barnett provided counsel on corporate transactions and licensing arrangements in the airline, chemical, construction aggregate, defense, hospital, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and other industries. Mr. Barnett is experienced in antitrust litigation and, among others, in antitrust issues involving intellectual property, e-commerce, sports law, and corporate compliance programs. From 1989 to 1990, Mr. Barnett clerked for the Honorable Harrison Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and was a coteacher of an advanced antitrust seminar at the University of Virginia School of Law. Mr. Barnett is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia Bars and the Antitrust Section.

Michael S. Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. His research and writing cover American federalism and its legal, political, and economic dimensions. Mr. Greve cofounded and, from 1989 to 2000, directed the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm that served as counsel in many precedent-setting constitutional cases, including United States v. Morrison and Rosenberger v. University of Virginia. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights.

Randolph W. Tritell is the director of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) office of international affairs. Mr. Tritell is responsible for coordinating the FTC’s international antitrust, consumer protection, and technical assistance policies and the FTC’s involvement in cases that raise international issues. He represents the FTC in multilateral forums, including the International Competition Network, in which he cochairs the Unilateral Conduct Working Group, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Competition Committee. He is also responsible for the FTC’s negotiation and implementation of bilateral international cooperation agreements and competition and consumer protection provisions of U.S. free trade agreements. Prior to returning to the FTC in 1998, Mr. Tritell was a partner with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. In 1992, after six years in the New York office, he opened the firm’s Brussels office, where he practiced European Community and international competition law. Mr. Tritell began his career at the FTC, serving as a staff attorney in the Bureau of Consumer Protection (1978–81), assistant to the director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (1981–83), attorney adviser to Commissioner Terry Calvani (1983–85), and executive assistant to the chairman (1985–86). Mr. Tritell serves on the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law and is a frequent speaker and author on international trade regulation issues.

Theodore W. Ullyot is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He specializes in appellate litigation, administrative law, and antitrust law. Mr. Ullyot was the general counsel of ESL Investments, Inc., from October 2005 to April 2008. From January 2003 to October 2005, he served in various positions in the Bush administration, including as chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Justice and as deputy staff secretary at the White House. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ullyot was general counsel of AOL Time Warner Europe, where his duties included representing the company in antitrust matters before European regulators. He served as AOL Time Warner’s chief liaison to the European Commission in connection with the antitrust-related conditions imposed on the merger between AOL and Time Warner. Mr. Ullyot also clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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