It is with great sadness that we mark the passing of our colleague and friend Morten Hviid, Emeritus Professor of Law.

Morten joined UEA in 2000, having previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Warwick where he completed his PhD and MA in Economics. He was also awarded a Cand Oecon degree from Arhus before commencing his PhD. He joined us as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Economic and Social Studies, as it was then, and in 2004 was appointed as a Professor of Competition Law within the UEA Law School. Despite his move to Law, he never stopped being an economist and indeed he belonged to a rare and valuable category of scholar who is genuinely fluent in two disciplines rather than merely conversant in the second. He was a founding member of the Centre for Competition Policy, which attracted £10m of ESRC funding between 2004 and 2014, and he served as its director from 2011 to 2018. Thanks to his stewardship, CCP became one of the few research centres established on a large grant to go on and become financially sustainable through other sources of income. Today it is still an internationally respected multidisciplinary centre for research on competition and regulation, regularly advising and undertaking research for government departments and regulators in the UK, Europe and beyond.

Morten served as Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, held visiting positions at Yale, Berkeley, Michigan and Copenhagen, and advised a range of public bodies including the Office of Fair Trading. Morten made valuable contributions to an extraordinary breadth of academic fields, including competition, game theory, contract, tort and most recently the creative industries. During his career he produced more than 60 refereed articles and book chapters, secured 15 research grants and supervised more than 40 PhD students (roughly half in law and half in economics). In 2025 he was appointed an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Regulation of the Creative Economy (CREATE) at the University of Glasgow.

But Morten's greatest contribution to those who knew him was a personal one. He was a man of great kindness, patience, generosity and humour. Colleagues and former students have shared wonderful memories with us, and what binds them together is a sense of someone who left others feeling better about themselves as academics and more confident in the path they were on.

Our thoughts are with his wife Catherine and their family, and with all his friends and colleagues in the Law School, the CCP, and the wider UEA and competition communities.

He will be missed enormously.