This year's conference, to be held 12 & 13 September at Merton College, Oxford, will explore the tradeoffs between complexity and simplicity in competition and regulatory policy. The conference will be held in conjunction with City University, London and will consider these issues generally and with specific reference to:

• Competition and media plurality: A test too far?
• The UK competition regimen: Too many checks and balances?
• Competition, regulation and innovation: Does traditional regulation stifle innovation?
• Price control regulation: Is simplicity possible or desirable?
• Frontiers of Competition: Promoting competition in hostile policy environments

This year's speakers will be:

• Dr Tony Ballance - Director, Strategy & Regulation, Severn Trent
• Antonio Bavasso - Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
• Matthew Bell - Associate Director, Frontier Economics
• Sonia Brown - Chief Economist, Monitor
• Dr Harry Bush - Senior Regulatory Adveser, KPMG
• Sarah Chambers - Director, Consumer & Cometition Policy, BIS
• Peter Freeman QC - former Chairman, Competition Commission
• Professor Cosmo Graham - Director, CCES, University of Leicester
• David Gray - Lead Reviewer, Ofwat
• Professor Gordon Hughes - Chairman, Water Industry Commission for Scotland
• Professor Stephen Littlechild - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
• Simon Oates - Directory of Regulatory Strategy, Royal Mail
• John Pheasant - Partner, Hogan Lovells
• Professor John Pickering - former Member, Competition Appeal Tribunal
• Suzanne Rab - Partner, King & Spalding
• Professor Adrian Towse - Director, Office of Health Economics
• Professor George Yarrow - Chairman, Regulatory Policy Institute

The conference will include the RPI's 20th Anniversary & Distinguished Fellows Dinner to be held in Merton College Hall on the evening of September 12th.

To book your place, please download the conference programme and booking form.

Details of previous competition policy conferences is available here.