Dr. Behrang Kianzad, founder and executive Director of FIDMA, holds a LLM (2015) in Law from Lund University, Sweden, and a PhD (2022) in Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law and Economics from University of Copenhagen. Having completed a post-doc at University of Copenhagen, and another post-doc with a grant from Johan and Jakob Söderberg Foundation at Department of Business Law, School of Economics, Lund University, he is since September 2025 employed as senior researcher and lecturer at Institute of Global Political Studies, Malmö University, on a three-year grant from Swedish Competition Authority.
Behrang Kianzad is an international expert on the matter of Competition Law, Economics and Policy, with strong foundations in legal philosophy, intellectual property law and law and economics, and have written and presented widely on the subject. His publications are found at Oxford, Cambridge, Springer, Edward Elgar and some of the leading Competition Law, IP Law and Health Law journals. He is also a reviewer for European Journal of Law and Economics and contributing author to Encyclopaedia of Law and Economics and Concurrences Global Dictionary.
His main research topics deal with the intersection of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, and the Law and Economics approaches related to both areas of law.
He has presented his research at numerous international conferences, held expert meetings for various Competition Authorities, European Commission, World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and many more.
Before joining the academia he worked some 15 years as journalist, editor and lecturer in journalism, where he co-authored a course book on multiculturalism, and went on to work and lecture on digital communications. Among his former employers are Swedish Radio & TV, TIME Magazine, European Commission and Swedish Aid Agency to name a few.
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