Terry Calvani

Terry Calvani
Terry Calvani
Member of the Irish Competition Authority
	In office; 2002–2005
Taoiseach	Bertie Ahern
Succeeded by	Stanley Wong
Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
	In office; November 18, 1983 – September 25, 1990
President	Ronald Reagan
Preceded by	David Clanton
Succeeded by	Roscoe B. Starek III
Personal details
Born	January 29, 1947 (age 77); Carlsbad, New Mexico, U.S.
Spouse	Sarah Sage Holter
Alma mater	University of New Mexico (B.A.); Cornell Law School (J.D.)

Terry Calvani (born January 29, 1947) is a lawyer, former government official and university professor. Appointed by President

University of California, Hastings College of Law. He retired from the practice of antitrust law with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

in April 2019. He is currently a senior advisor to Brunswick Group LLC.

Professional life

After graduating from law school, Calvani practiced with the San Francisco firm of

antitrust law. In 1983, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve one term as commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission from 1983-1990. He returned to practicing law at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro from 1990 until 2002, during which time he also taught antitrust at the Harvard Law School, from 1998 to 2001 and also at Duke University School of Law

, in 2000.

From 2002 until 2005, he was a member of the governing board of the

Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission. Concurrently, he taught antitrust law at Trinity College Dublin

, from 2004 to 2005.

Calvani practiced antitrust law with

University of California, Hastings College of Law

in 2019.

Calvani is the co-editor of a book on antitrust economics and the author of numerous articles on

antitrust law. He has lectured extensively on competition issues and has served as chairman of several American Bar Association antitrust committees and on the governing board of its Antitrust Section. He is a life member of the American Law Institute, the Judicial Conference for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and serves on the advisory boards of the Antitrust Bulletin, Oxford Journal of Antitrust Enforcement and Dublin University Law Journal, and has been a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. Calvani has served as a Non-Governmental Advisor (NGA)for the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division and the United States Federal Trade Commission to the International Competition Network

(ICN) since 2005, and has provided technical assistance to competition enforcement agencies in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

In February 2020, he was announced as a senior advisor to Brunswick Group LLC.[1]

Personal life

Calvani was born and grew up in Carlsbad, New Mexico. He received a B.A. in history from the University of New Mexico in 1970 and a J.D. with distinction from the Cornell Law School in 1972. He is married to Sarah Sage Holter, and lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He was previously married to Mary Virginia Anderson of Mill Valley, California and Judith Tbompson of Birmingham, Alabama. He has two children, Dominic Mario Calvani and Torello Howard Calvani, two step-children, Benjamin Douglas Hill and Elizabeth Sage Hill, and four grandchildren.

References

^ "Ex-FTC Commissioner Takes Expertise to Brunswick Group - Law360".

External links

[1] "Ex-FTC Commissioner Takes Expertise to Brunswick Group - Law360".

Chairs of the Federal Trade Commission
Member-selected (1915–1950)	Joseph E. Davies (1915–1916) • Edward N. Hurley (1916–1917) • William J. Harris (1917–1918) • William Byron Colver (1918–1919) • John Franklin Fort (1919) • Victor Murdock (1919–1920) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1920–1921) • Nelson B. Gaskill (1921–1922) • Victor Murdock (1922–1923) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1923–1924) • Vernon W. Van Fleet (1924–1925) • John F. Nugent (1925–1926) • Charles W. Hunt (1926–1927) • William E. Humphrey (1927–1928) • Abram F. Myers (1928–1929) • Edgar A. McCulloch (1929) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1930) • Charles W. Hunt (1931) • William E. Humphrey (1932) • Charles H. March (1933) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1934) • Ewin L. Davis (1935) • Charles H. March (1936) • William Augustus Ayres (1937) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1938) • Robert E. Freer (1939) • Ewin L. Davis (1940) • Charles H. March (1941) • William Augustus Ayres (1942) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1943) • Robert E. Freer (1944) • Ewin L. Davis (1945) • William Augustus Ayres (1946) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1947) • Robert E. Freer (1948) • Lowell B. Mason (1949–1950)
Presidential appointments (1950–present) Acting chairs italicized	James M. Mead (1950–1953) • Edward F. Howrey (1953–1955) • John W. Gwynne (1955–1959) • Earl W. Kintner (1959–1961) • Paul Rand Dixon (1961–1969) • Caspar Weinberger (1970–1970) • Everette MacIntyre (1970–1973) • Lewis A. Engman (1973–1975) • Paul Rand Dixon (1976) • Calvin J. Collier (1976–1977) • Michael Pertschuk (1977–1981) • David A. Clanton (1981) • James C. Miller III (1981–1985) • Terry Calvani (1985–1986) • Daniel Oliver (1986–1989) • Janet Dempsey Steiger (1989–1995) • Robert Pitofsky (1995–2001) • Timothy Muris (2001–2004) • Deborah Platt Majoras (2004–2008) • William Kovacic (2008–2009) • Jon Leibowitz (2009–2013) • Edith Ramirez (2013–2017) • Maureen Ohlhausen (2017–2018) • Joseph Simons (2018–2021) • Rebecca Slaughter (2021) • Lina Khan (2021–present)

Professional life

Personal life

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