Sandeep Vaheesan

Sandeep Vaheesan is the legal director at the Open Markets Institute. He leads Open Markets’ legal advocacy and research work, including its amicus program.

Vaheesan works on a range of anti-monopoly topics, including antitrust law’s role in structuring labor markets and promoting fair competition. From 2015 to 2018, he served as a regulations counsel at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he helped develop rules on payday and title lending and debt collection practices. Before that, he worked at the American Antitrust Institute.

Vaheesan’s writing has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Law & Policy Review, New Republic, New York Times, Washington Post, and Yale Law Journal Forum. He has a forthcoming book entitled Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States, which will be published by the University of Chicago Press in December.