Pedro Caro de Sousa

Member of the Legal Service at European Commission

Speaker

Pedro Caro de Sousa has been with the European Commission’s Legal Service (Competition Team) since 2022, where he has worked on the full spectrum of competition-related procedures, both in their administrative and judicial stages. Before joining the Commission, Pedro was a competition expert with the OECD between 2015 and 2021, where he worked on a variety of competition-related topics. He is a qualified lawyer in Portugal and a barrister of England and Wales, having worked for Linklaters LLP between 2005 and 2014. He obtained a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2012, where he was a tutor in EU and competition law. Before joining the OECD, Pedro was a lecturer in Law at the University of Reading, and a tutor at King’s College, University of London. He was also a Visiting Scholar at the European University Institute and an Associate Research Fellow at New York University’s School of Law.