Dublin woman Gail Slater is to head up the antitrust division at the US Department of Justice, a key position in the incoming administration of president-elect Donald Trump.
The Dublin lawyer has been in the running for one of the top jobs in the new Trump-led administration and has now been nominated as assistant attorney general.
The 52-year-old, originally from south Co Dublin and a graduate of UCD law school, has been policy adviser for vice president-elect JD Vance.
Also an Oxford University graduate, Ms Slater will take charge of several high-profile monopoly cases against companies including Apple, Google, and Visa.
Mr Trump said Ms Slater will “ensure that (US) competition laws are enforced, both vigorously and fairly with clear rules that facilitate, rather than stifle, the ingenuity of our greatest companies,” according to US media reports.
Ms Slater, was a tech policy adviser on the National Economic Council during Mr Trump’s first term, concerning Chinese telecommunications equipment, and has been advising his transition team on antitrust and tech policy.
She previously worked for 10 years at the US Federal Trade Commission including as an adviser to former Democratic FTC Commissioner Julie Brill in Barack Obama’s administration.
