Dr Michael KÖNIG

Deputy Head of Unit, Business-to-business services, DG GROW, European Commission

Dr. Michael KÖNIG is Deputy Head of Unit in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs in the unit dealing with business-to-business services. He is primarily responsible for B2B relations regarding online platforms and negotiated the recently adopted Regulation on fairness in platform-to-business relations.

Mr König joined the European Commission in 2001 in the Directorate-General for Competition. His assignments included a position as advisor to Directorate-General's top management and a secondment to the OECD, before he joined the Internal Market Directorate-General in 2008. There he held positions in various policy areas including intellectual property, financial services and public procurement.

Before joining the Commission, Mr. König worked for several years in the German Competition Authority and an international law firm.

Mr. König graduated in Law and Economics, and holds a PhD degree in Competition Law.