Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono

Rifky is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law, a researcher at Oxford's Centre for Competition Law and Policy, and a member of Wolfson College. Rifky served as the Graduate Teaching Assistant to Prof Ariel Ezrachi, and the Co-Convenor of Oxford’s Competition Law Discussion Group. He has taught the Competition Law & Policy course for students at the BA in Jurisprudence and Master of Law and Finance programmes in Oxford. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Ariel Ezrachi, examines how developing countries should adapt their competition policies to address the unique antitrust challenges posed by the digital economy. Specifically, it provides a framework to address the exercise of market power in digital markets by dominant online platforms that are adapted for developing countries.

Rifky obtained his Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School in 2021, where he was twice awarded the Dean's Scholars Prize for extraordinary academic work. He also received honours for his LL.M. thesis supervised by Prof. Louis Kaplow which analyzed the importance of integrating data privacy into the antitrust analysis of mergers in digital markets. Rifky also holds the Magister Juris degree with Distinction from Oxford in 2017 as a Jardine-Oxford Scholar, where he served as the MJur Class Representative. Rifky obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia) in 2010 as one of the best graduates of his class with a GPA of 3.95.

Prior to his DPhil studies, Rifky was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada. As an academic, he has written in top-tier international journals, he serves as a peer reviewer for leading journals in competition law, and his research has been published by renowned academic publishers such as OUP. Rifky has been invited to present his academic work by international institutions such as UNCTAD and ASCOLA, as well as by leading universities such as Harvard, Oxford, SciencesPo Paris, and NUS. He is a junior member of ASCOLA and is also a member of the Antitrust Law Division of the ABA. He regularly advises the Indonesian Competition Commission (KPPU) as well as the private sector on antitrust issues related to the digital economy.