Robert
McLeod

Robert McLeod is a Brussels-based senior practitioner with more than three decades of experience providing insight and advice on regulatory risk and engagement strategies in the European Union and the UK to companies ranging from global multinationals to innovative SMEs. He is head of APCO’s European Competition and M&A practice in Brussels.

Keep working, especially on things that have always interested you. Keep learning new things”

– (Poorly translated) Cicero

Robert started his media career in the energy sector, first as a journalist and then as deputy editor at the Institute of Petroleum in London. In 1993 he left to help set up the energy desk at the then-nascent Bloomberg News operation in London.  After assignments in London, Paris and Brussels, in 2005 Robert left Bloomberg to found MLex market insight, a global service providing insight, commentary and analysis on regulatory risk, with a focus on antitrust & merger control, energy & climate change, trade, financial services and data & privacy. As editor-in-chief and CEO, he expanded the business and established a presence in several high-profile jurisdictions including China, Hong Kong, The United States, Japan, Korea and Brazil.

After selling MLex to LexisNexis, Robert started working as a senior advisor in Brussels as a senior advisor, advising companies across sectors including energy, telecommunications, chemicals, food, transport and FMCG on public affairs and media engagement strategies at EU and UK level. Prior to joining APCO, Robert has sat on the Board of several SMEs in the energy and climate change, agriculture technology and FMCG sectors. He has also been appointed as a member of the European Commission’s Small Modular Reactor Alliance and is active on two of the Technical Working Groups.