Jochem de Kok is an Associate Fellow at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance. His research focuses on investment screening, competition law and export controls, with particular attention to the evolving relationship between economic governance and security interests. He also supervises master’s theses in the European Law LL.M. programmes at the University of Amsterdam.

Jochem combines academic research with extensive practice experience. He works as a Senior Associate at A&O Shearman, where he advises on investment screening, merger control, antitrust, state aid and export control. He regularly represents companies in proceedings before the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, Competition Authorities, and before Dutch and European courts. 

He has published in leading European and international law journals, including European Law Review, Journal of International Economic Law, The Journal of World Investment & Trade, World Competition and Legal Issues of Economic Integration, as well as Dutch journals such as Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht and Tijdschrift Mededingingsrecht in de Praktijk. He is one of the authors of Kluwer’s Text & Commentary on investment screening law.

He is also a Lecturer at the University of Bonn, where he teaches on the security exception in legal theory and international law. Jochem regularly speaks at academic and professional conferences on investment screening and competition law. He is a member of the Dutch Investment Screening Association (VvI) and the Competition Law Association (VvM). Prior to qualifying as a lawyer, he completed the Blue Book Traineeship at DG Competition of the European Commission.

Jochem completed his PhD at the University of Amsterdam. He holds an LL.M. (First Class Honours) from the University of Cambridge and a Research LL.M. (cum laude) from the University of Groningen.