Competition Commission of Mauritius

Executive Director and Senior Staff

John Davies - Executive Director

The Executive Director heads the staff of the Commission and is responsible for day-to-day management of the CCM as an institution, reporting to the Board of the Commission. In addition, the Executive Director has specific powers under the Competition Act to initiate and carry out investigations, to report the results of that investigation to the Commissioners for a decision, to publish the results of that decision with reasons, and to implement and enforce the decision.

John Davies is the first Executive Director of the Competition Commission of Mauritius. Following degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and a brief spell teaching economics at the University of Namibia, he began a career in which he has specialized in the economics of competition and regulation. For 10 years he worked in the private sector as a consultant, mostly advising companies who were being investigated by competition and regulatory agencies, but also working for the agencies themselves on occasion.

In 2003, he joined the staff of the Competition Commission in the UK, initially as deputy Chief Economist for two years, then as Chief Economist for a further three years. In that role he oversaw a team of about 30 economists working on all of the inquiries carried out by the Competition Commission.

At the end of 2008, he resigned to take up his present post.

Nandinee Kiran Meetarbhan – Deputy Executive Director/Director Legal

Following her Bar Qualifications in 1995, Nandinee K. Meetarbhan began her career at the Ministry of Internal and External Communications as Assistant Secretary for a brief period. In 1996, she joined the Mauritius Offshore Business Activities Authority as Assistant Manager and in 1997 she became Manager for Legal Affairs. In this capacity, she was in charge of business development and investigation in the offshore sector. In 2001, at the creation of the Financial Services Commission, she continued her career with the Commission as Executive - Legal until 2003, when she became in charge of the Surveillance of the Insurance and Pension Industry. From 2007, she was appointed Adviser at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development.

Mrs. Meetarbhan has also been on different committees at national and regional level. She has been a member of the WTO committee on Financial Services, the Regional Integration and Facilitation Forum, the Committee on Money Laundering, the CISNA, a sub-committee of the SADC on Insurance and Securities…etc. She has also been involved in the drafting of several legislation relating to the financial sector in Mauritius.

Mrs Meetarbhan has also been a part-time lecturer in Law and Finance, for several years at the University of Mauritius and the DCDM Business School (for the Curtin University of Australia).

Mrs Meetarbhan is a Barrister at Law, and also holds a Master in Business Administration from the University of Mauritius.