Reflecting the centre’s practical focus it receives gold sponsorship from the international law firm Clifford Chance, subject to maintaining full independence. While based in the UK, the CCP has extensive international links and in the past five years has undertaken projects for the European Commission (DG Competition and DG Justice), the OECD, APEC, the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), the Danish Competition Authority, the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), Germany’s Markenverband and the University of Johannesburg.

CCP currently has 41 associated faculty members (from Economics, Law, Business and Political Science) who, in addition to their research, teach on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the University; 24 research student members; and is supported by two administrators. Its faculty and students come from around the world, giving the Centre strong international ties. CCP hosts an annual conference which draws an international audience of more than 150 delegates (the last conference had 600 registrations, more than half from outside the UK), as well as other ad hoc conferences and workshops, in particular for UK government departments and regulatory bodies who are members of our Subscription Membership Scheme. CCP also produces a biannual Research Bulletin, a blog (competitionpolicy.wordpress.com) and twitter feed (@ccp_uea) to effectively communicate our current research to a wide audience. More information about the Centre can be found at http://competitionpolicy.ac.uk/.