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November 11, 2025

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May 12, 2025

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The U.S. Chamber has assembled a range of preeminent experts in the field of antitrust from across a wide political spectrum to offer timely views on key questions of antitrust law and policy. This group brings together senior enforcers spanning seven administrations, and includes agency leaders from both the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Collectively, the experts have decades of experience counseling clients, teaching law, and writing academic and economic literature. They may not all agree on all policy matters, but they share a common belief in the importance of competition in the marketplace.

Every few weeks, the Chamber poses a “prompt” to this panel of experts. The prompt can solicit open-ended answers, or come in the form of a true/false question (but we note that we’ve received lengthy answers even to those types of questions). If you have any ideas or suggestions for future prompts, please email us at theprompt@uschamber.com.

Responses to The Prompt are solely the anonymized views of individual members of the expert group. The opinions expressed should not be associated with policy positions of the U.S. Chamber, nor should the opinions be attributed to any individual in the group or to any law firm, client, organization, or affiliation an expert may have. The Chamber has provided biographical information of each expert simply to illustrate the extensive experience and thought leadership positions that each has held during his or her career. For any reason (e.g., to avoid a conflict of interest) an individual expert might elect not to participate in the response to a particular question.

Past Prompts

Summer '25 Featured Prompt


Meet the panel

  • Alden AbbottFormer FTC General Counsel
  • Thomas O. BarnettFormer Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • William (Bill) BlumenthalFormer FTC General Counsel
  • Ian ConnorFormer Director, FTC Bureau of Competition
  • Daniel A. CraneProfessor of Law, University of Michigan
  • Deborah (Debbie) FeinsteinFormer Director, FTC Bureau of Competition
  • Deborah GarzaFormer Acting Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Renata HesseFormer Acting Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Michael KadesFormer Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Jon LeibowitzFormer FTC Chairman
  • Henry LiuFormer Director, FTC Bureau of Competition
  • Terrell McSweeneyFormer FTC Commissioner
  • Diana MossVice President and Director, Competition Policy, Progressive Policy Institute
  • Bernard (Barry) Nigro Jr.Former Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Maureen OhlhausenFormer FTC Acting Chairman and Commissioner
  • Noah J. PhillipsFormer FTC Commissioner
  • Sharis PozenFormer Acting Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Amanda ReevesFormer FTC Attorney Advisor, J. Thomas Rosch
  • Charles (Rick) RuleFormer Assistant Attorney General, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • Carl ShapiroFormer Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics, DOJ Antitrust Division
  • D. Daniel SokolProfessor of Law and Business, USC Gould School of Law
  • David WalesFormer Acting Director, FTC Bureau of Competition
  • Mark WhitenerFormer Deputy Director, FTC Bureau of Competiton
  • Christine WilsonFormer FTC Commissioner
  • Gary ZanfagnaFormer Assistant Director, FTC Office of Policy Planning

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns, please email Sean Heather - Senior Vice President (sheather@uschamber.com) and Ashley Gum - Vice President (agum@uschamber.com).


Disclaimer

*Responses to the prompt are solely the anonymized views of individual members of the expert group. The opinions expressed should not be associated with policy positions of the U.S. Chamber, nor should the opinions be attributed to any individual in the group or to any law firm, client, organization, or affiliation an expert may have. The chamber has provided biographical information of each expert simply to illustrate the extensive experience and thought leadership positions that each has held during his or her career. For any reason (E.G., to avoid a conflict of interest) an individual expert might elect not to participate in the response to a particular question.