Susanne Thorwarth

Dr. Susanne Thorwarth is Managing Director of Düsseldorf Competition Economics. She has extensive experience in advising clients in various areas of competition economics, in particular cartel damages, where she has acted on both the plaintiff and defendant side and also as part of the court expert team. Susanne is specialized in the field of data analysis and applied econometrics, with a focus on the quantification of damages in private litigation cases.

In 2023, Dr Thorwarth was voted one of the top 20 most recommended advisors in the field of competition economics by the legal journal Juve.

From 2011 to 2013 she worked as a Senior Economist for the German Monopolies Commission. There, she dealt extensively with topics related to market power, international interdependencies and the measurement of market power in the energy sector. Previously, she worked for four years at the Centre for Research and Development Monitoring (ECOOM) of KU Leuven in Belgium, where she was responsible for data collection, processing and evaluation of Flemish innovation statistics.

Susanne studied economics at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mannheim and subsequently received her Doctor of Applied Economics from KU Leuven in Belgium. Her research results have been published in internationally renowned journals, including Economics Letters and Research Policy.