Paolo Buccirossi

Director

Paolo Buccirossi is the Director and founder of Lear. Paolo has been working in the field of competition policy since 1994. After five years spent as an economic advisor at the Italian Competition Authority, Paolo set up Lear in 1999. Since then, he has advised private clients and public institutions on a wide range of competition issues before the European Commission and several national competition authorities. Paolo has prepared witness statements in private litigation cases and assisted clients during regulatory reviews, mostly in the telecoms and media sectors.
Paolo regularly acts as a consultant for the World Bank and the EBRD. In addition, he has led several research projects for the European Commission, the European Parliament and several national competition authorities in the world.

Paolo has published in several academic journals and has been the editor of the Handbook of Antitrust Economics (MIT Press). He holds an MSc in Public Economics and a Ph.D. in Economics awarded by the University of Rome La Sapienza. He teaches Economics of Competition Law at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a course on “Actions for Damages: the Quantification of Harm” at the College of Europe.

LATEST ENGAGEMENTS

• Assistance to merging parties in the Italgas/2i Rete Gas merger proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority
• Assistance to ENI in an abuse of dominance case before the Italian Competition Authority
• Support study for DG Comp on the deterrence effects of EU competition enforcement 
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