Consultant

Scott Burrell

Scott Burrell

Scott is a consultant in Frontier’s competition and telecoms practices, based in London.

He has experience providing advisory support to clients on a number of areas of competition policy including litigation, standalone and follow-on damages, merger assessments, abuse of dominance assessments and market investigations.

His recent work includes cases such as Justin Le Patourel vs. BT, Merricks and Trucks. He has also worked with clients including Facebook, Three, Medivet, Vodafone, and Sky. He recently completed a secondment to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as an Economics Advisor, during which time he advised on several Phase 1 merger cases and a market investigation into Cloud Services.

Scott holds an MA in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge. Outside the world of competition economics, he is a budding cook, North London-pub enthusiast, and a fan of all ball games.

Q&A

Are aliens real?

I wouldn’t rule it out. For fellow believers, the Fermi paradox makes a compelling case for their existence.

Who would play you in a movie?

I’d like it to be Matthew McConnaughey. Whether he would is another question.

Have a favourite quote?

“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole”.