Gail Slater will serve as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division at the Justice Department. (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Donald Trump has selected Gail Slater, an Oxford-educated economic policy adviser to Vice President-elect JD Vance, to head up antitrust enforcement at the Justice Department.
Slater was a tech policy adviser on the National Economic Council during Trump’s first term, and has been advising his transition team on antitrust and tech policy. Earlier she spent 10 years at the US Federal Trade Commission, including as an adviser to former Democratic FTC Commissioner Julie Brill in Barack Obama’s administration.
“Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech!” Trump said. “I was proud to fight these abuses in my First Term, and our Department of Justice’s antitrust team will continue that work under Gail’s leadership.”
The agency has two ongoing
cases against Google and is heading back to trial in April on what changes the
tech giant must make to its business after being found to have illegally
monopolized the online search market. Slater will also be responsible for deciding
whether to move forward or settle recent cases filed against Live Nation
Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster, Visa and Apple.
Gail Slater (née Conlon; born in 1971) is an Irish-born American lawyer and political advisor. She is the nominee to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
Slater is from Dalkey, Dublin, in Ireland. She attended the University of Oxford and University College Dublin, graduating from the latter in 1997 with a law degree. She also has a degree from University of Würzburg. She moved to the U.S. in 2003 and holds dual citizenship.
Slater started her career with the law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.[2] She focused on antitrust cases and was often sent to the U.S. as a liaison. She met her future husband, Lindsay Slater, on one of her trips to the U.S. and later moved there, leaving her job at Freshfields to become a staff attorney for the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in 2004.
At the FTC, she worked on several cases for major mergers, including one for Whole Foods Market as well as a case involving the pharmaceutical company Cephalon. In 2011, she became the FTC attorney advisor to commissioner Julie Brill.
Slater left the FTC in 2014, to become the vice-president for legal and regulatory policy for the Internet Association, a lobbying group, later becoming general counsel. After four years there, she was appointed in February 2018 to the administration of President Donald Trump as special assistant to the president for technology, telecommunications and cybersecurity.
After a year in the Trump administration, Slater left to become the senior vice president for policy and strategy at Fox Corporation. She later became the vice president and general counsel for Roku, Inc.
In 2024, Slater became a policy advisor for vice presidential candidate and later Vice President-elect JD Vance. When Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Slater became an advisor for his transition team on antitrust policy. On December 4, 2024, Trump nominated her to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.
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