Dr Ela Glowicka

Principal at E.CA Economics

Speaker

Dr. Ela Głowicka has over 15 years of experience in competition economics from her roles in economic consulting, enforcement, and academia.

She advised clients in private litigation cases for damages from cartels, vertical agreements, and abuse of dominance in court proceedings across Austria, Brazil, Finland, Germany, Poland and Slovenia.

She also advised merging parties in merger proceedings in front of the European Commission, the German Federal Cartel Office, the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection, the United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority, and the Slovenian Competition Protection Agency. Furthermore, she testified as a court expert in a private litigation matter related to excessive pricing.

In the area of State aid, Ela has extensive expertise in the ex-post evaluation of the European State aid rules. She co-authored retrospective evaluation studies for State aid for banks in difficulty, the regional State aid framework, the State aid guidelines for railways, and the State aid rules for environmental protection and energy, all published by DG Competition.

Ela joined E.CA Economics as a manager in 2013 and since then was promoted to director. Before that, she gained first-hand insight into EU competition policy developments as a member of the Chief Economist Team in DG Competition.

She holds a doctoral degree from Humboldt University for the thesis on competition policy applied to bailouts.