This report was prepared under the overall guidance of Teresa Moreira, Head, Competition and Consumer  Policies Branch, of the UNCTAD Division on International Trade and Commodities. Juan Luis Crucelegui, Chief of  Capacity-Building and Technical Assistance, Competition and Consumer Policies Branch of UNCTAD coordinated  the work of the report team. Research for the report was produced within the framework of the UNCTAD  Research Partnership Platform. From UNCTAD, Dipti Manchanda, Legal Officer, and Valentina Rivas, Programme  Management Officer, conducted an extensive revision of the draft text, making substantive contributions, while  Akari Yamamoto, Legal Officer, Sung Kyoon Kim, Competition Expert, and Josh Ciampi, UNCTAD consultant,  provided substantive comments.