BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre

What BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre does

The BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre is a Moscow-based, HSE University-affiliated non-profit research institution established to coordinate competition-policy cooperation among the antitrust authorities of the BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and, increasingly, partner countries such as Egypt. Founded from a 2015 research project by Director Alexey Ivanov on global food value chains and formally constituted as a Centre around 2020, it operates under a Steering Committee comprising the heads of the five core BRICS competition authorities (FAS Russia, CCI India, CADE Brazil, CompCom SA, SAMR China) and functions as the bloc's primary institutional bridge between regulators and academia. Its work spans six research programmes — Agriculture and Food, Digital Markets, Cross-Border Cartels, Pharmaceuticals, Ecoantitrust, and Carbon Farming — and produces peer-reviewed papers (e.g., npj Complexity, 2025), policy reports (e.g., 'From Fields to Futures: Competition, Financialization and Digitalization in Global Grain Value Chains', Competition Research of the Year 2025), a Cambridge University Press book on global food value chains, and regular newsletters tracking Chinese and Brazilian antitrust developments.

The Centre's underlying 'technology' is its methodological platform rather than a software stack: it develops analytical frameworks (notably the Ecoantitrust ecological-digital framework co-developed with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) and uses these to convene four standing BRICS Working Groups (Food Markets, Digital Markets, Pharmaceuticals, Cross-Border Cartels) that produce comparative reports, host academic workshops, and feed recommendations into national regulators. Distribution occurs through international conferences (IX International BRICS Competition Conference in Cape Town, BRICS+ Digital Competition Forums in Rio de Janeiro), multilingual websites, partner networks (IIASA, UNCTAD Research Partnership Platform, TALAP, FGV Law School, the Analytical Research Center for Competition Development), and a media partnership with TV BRICS.

Business model: as a non-profit academic-policy centre, the organisation generates no commercial revenue. Funding flows from research grants, institutional partnerships, and government support from BRICS member states channelled through its HSE University affiliation. Pricing is non-commercial: services — expert analysis, joint research, policy recommendations, working-group coordination — are delivered pro bono to BRICS competition authorities and academic collaborators rather than sold, making the unit-economics question moot for traditional revenue scaling.

Name

BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre

Legal name

BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre

Website

https://bricscompetition.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Non-profit research institution affiliated with HSE University that develops competition-policy frameworks and facilitates cooperation among antitrust authorities and academia across the BRICS economies (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and expanded partner countries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Competition Policy Research

NAICS

Legal Services (5411), Regulation of Agricultural Marketing and Commodities (926140)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Competition Policy, State Aid & Public Procurement Regulatory Cooperation (BPADANAO)

akta.pro secondary industries

Legal & Regulatory Publishing (Case Law, Statutes, Treatises) (MPAJACAA), Regulatory Change, Governance & Compliance Management (GRC) (FSACAJAK), Legal & Compliance (CLE, Paralegal CE) (EDAAALAB)

Keywords

• Competition law research
• Antitrust policy analysis
• BRICS regulatory cooperation
• Antimonopoly regulation
• Competition policy advisory

Headquarters

HQ city

Moscow

HQ country

Russia

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Research and Policy Services: The Centre operates as a non-profit academic research institution providing expert support to BRICS competition authorities. Revenue is derived from research grants, institutional partnerships, and government support from BRICS member states. The Centre is affiliated with the Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre is a non-profit academic research institution that conducts systematic research on competition law and policy across BRICS economies. It operates dedicated research programs in food/agriculture markets, digital markets, pharmaceuticals, cross-border cartels, ecoantitrust, and carbon farming, producing scientific reports, policy recommendations, regular newsletters, and international conferences for competition regulators and academia.

Product overview

The BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre is a project of systematic strategic cooperation between BRICS competition authorities and academia. It is not a product company but rather a policy research and coordination center that develops unified approaches to antimonopoly regulation of innovative and socially important markets. Its offerings consist of research programs (covering Agriculture and Food, Digital Markets, Cross-Border Cartels, Pharmaceuticals, Ecoantitrust, and Carbon Farming), expert publications and reports (including the 'From Fields to Futures' grain trade report), periodic newsletters on BRICS antitrust developments, and organized conferences and events for the BRICS competition community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Agriculture and Food Research Program Research program providing in-depth analysis of food industry regulation from a competition policy perspective, covering BRICS countries and selected developed countries (EU, US). Underpins the BRICS Working Group for the Research of Competition Issues in Food Markets.
• Digital Markets Research Program Research program focused on exchanging information on suppressing anticompetitive practices in the digital economy, including combating new types of cartels, examining concentration transactions, and developing new mechanisms adapted to digital reality. Underpins the BRICS Working Group on Digital Markets.
• Cross-Border Cartels Research Program Research program addressing the pressing issue of cross-border cartels and the complexity inherent in investigating and suppressing this type of anti-competitive behaviour across jurisdictions.
• Pharmaceuticals Research Program Comparative analysis of biosimilars market entry rules in BRICS countries, identifying unjustified barriers not dictated by safety or efficacy considerations. Underpins the BRICS Working Group on Pharmaceutical Markets, co-chaired with SAMR China.
• Ecoantitrust Research Program Comprehensive approach to analyzing and regulating digital platforms using analogies between natural and digital ecosystems, developed jointly with the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
• Carbon Farming in Kazakhstan Project Research project exploring carbon farming and carbon market mechanisms as elements of Kazakhstan's climate and environmental policy aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2060.
• BRICS Competition Newsletters Regular newsletters covering antitrust developments from China, Brazil and other BRICS countries, providing expert reviews and analysis of competition news and Centre activities.
• IX International BRICS Competition Conference Annual international conference organized by the Centre for BRICS competition authorities, academics, and policy makers to discuss emerging competition law and policy issues.
• BRICS+ Digital Competition Forum Periodic forum co-organized with CADE Brazil and FGV Law School focusing on digital competition issues across BRICS+ jurisdictions.

Quantifiable outcome

• The 'From Fields to Futures' report recognized as Competition Research of the Year 2025
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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No

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Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• FGV Law School (Brazil)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 November 2025Co-organizer of BRICS+ Digital Competition Forums in Rio de Janeiro. Hosted 4th BRICS+ Digital Competition Forum in November 2025 with CADE.
• TALAP Center for Applied ResearchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 October 2022Partner in carbon farming research initiatives in Kazakhstan. Collaborated on International Inaugural Dialogue on Climate Action and Carbon Farming.
• GFC Centre (Green Finance Center, AIFC)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 October 2022Partner in carbon farming and climate action dialogues in Kazakhstan, working on sustainable development and carbon market projects.
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term strategic partner for the Ecoantitrust project, which develops ecological approaches to analyzing and regulating digital ecosystems. Joint research on carbon farming in Kazakhstan and global environmental policy.
• UNCTAD Research Partnership PlatformcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJoint research platform on competition law and policy. Partners on global food value chain studies and joint reports presented at BRICS conferences.
• TV BRICSminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMedia partnership for coverage and dissemination of Centre activities and research findings across BRICS countries.
• Cambridge University PressminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic publisher of Centre's research including 'Global Food Value Chains and Competition Law' book published January 2022.
• Analytical Research Center for Competition DevelopmentcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSigned Memorandum of Support (MoS) in May 2026 for joint research and cooperation on competition policy development.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• International Competition Network (ICN): Global inter-agency competition network of more than 130 antitrust authorities from both developed and developing jurisdictions. Most directly comparable as a multilateral coordination platform for competition authorities, though it is broader, more established, and not regionally focused on BRICS.
• OECD Competition Committee: Standing body of the OECD that convenes competition authorities from member states to develop recommendations and peer reviews on antitrust and market regulation. Highly comparable as a policy-coordination and research-generating institution for competition authorities, but with a developed-economy skew that the BRICS Centre explicitly contrasts with.
• Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (EUI): Academic research centre within the European University Institute housing the Competition Policy research area. Comparable as a Europe-based academic centre producing antitrust research, policy events, and convening activities, though with a developed-economy focus.

Direct peers

• UNCTAD Competition and Consumer Policies Branch: Intergovernmental unit within UNCTAD supporting developing-country competition regimes with research, peer reviews, and technical assistance. Direct functional overlap with the BRICS Centre's emerging-economy focus and produces research and policy frameworks very similar in form; the Centre already partners with UNCTAD's Research Partnership Platform.
• Centre for Competition Policy (CCP), University of East Anglia: Interdisciplinary academic research centre focused on competition law and economics, producing peer-reviewed working papers, policy briefs, and conferences. Comparable as an academic hub for competition policy research, though UK-based and not focused on emerging markets.
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA): Laxenburg-based international research institute conducting interdisciplinary systems analysis on policy issues. A direct strategic partner of the Centre on the Ecoantitrust initiative and of comparable scale and structure as a non-profit research institution.
• BRICS Policy Center: Rio de Janeiro-based think tank focused on research, policy analysis, and public debate on BRICS and the Global South. Comparable in geographic and thematic remit (BRICS-focused policy research and convening) though broader than competition law.
• Concurrences: Paris-based publisher and events organiser covering competition law and policy globally, including the annual Antitrust Writing Awards. Comparable as a research-dissemination and convening platform producing authoritative commentary and conferences on competition regulation.
• CUTS International: India-headquartered policy research and advocacy organisation with a long-running Competition, Investment and Economic Regulation programme covering developing-country antitrust issues. Closely comparable in mission (competition and consumer policy in emerging markets), deliverable style (research reports, events), and geographic focus.
• Global Antitrust Institute at FGV (FGV Direito SP): Competition law and policy research centre at Fundação Getúlio Vargas in São Paulo, co-host of BRICS+ Digital Competition Forums in Rio de Janeiro alongside the Centre and CADE. Direct peer in both methodology (digital platforms, competition policy) and partnership network.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

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