Caroline Buts

Caroline Buts is professor and vice-dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where she teaches European Integration and Competition Policy. She obtained her PhD in 2012 on the Economics of State aid which, next to defence and peace economics, is still one of her main areas of research. She is founding member and current chair of the Brussels Centre for Competition Policy and supervises multiple PhD students and projects, in both fundamental and applied research. Since 2014, Caroline is managing editor of the European State Aid Law Quarterly. In addition, she advises public and private partners about State aid.