Paolo Buccirossi

Director at Lear

Speaker

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, including cartels, abuse of dominance, vertical agreements and mergers in a variety of industries, before the European Commission and several national competition authorities. Moreover, 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. He teaches a course in competition economics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a course on the quantification of damages at the College of Europe.