Marc van der Woude is the vice-president of the General Court of the European Union. He started his career as a tutor at the College of Europe in Bruges and as a lecturer at Leiden University. He then joined the European institutions where he worked for DG Competition, the European Court of Justice as a legal secretary and the Commission’s legal Service. He resigned from the European civil service to become a member of the Brussels bar, where he practiced European and competition law for fifteen years. Marc van der Woude became a professor in competition law at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam and acted four years as an advisor on energy policy for the Dutch government. Marc van der Woude is an author of numerous publications on European and competition law and still teaches at Rotterdam University.