Stephen Rodger is a Deputy Assistant Director in the Bureau of Competition at the Federal Trade Commission. He received his B.A. in Government and Economics from the College of William and Mary in 1997 and his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2002. Mr. Rodger joined the FTC in 2012.

As a Deputy Assistant Director in the Mergers IV Division, Mr. Rodger supervises investigations into proposed transactions in various industries, including retail, consumer products, distribution, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. He previously worked in the Mergers I Division, where he led investigations into proposed mergers in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and consumer healthcare products and services industries. Mr. Rodger also has extensive litigation experience and has served as trial counsel for the FTC in several matters, most recently serving as lead trial counsel in the FTC’s challenge to Altria’s acquisition of a 35 percent stake in JUUL.

Before joining the FTC, Mr. Rodger spent nine years as a litigation and antitrust associate at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC. Before entering private practice, Mr. Rodger also spent a year clerking for the Honorable Karen LeCraft Henderson on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.