OXERA CONSULTING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of Oxera 's Competition
- Senior Consultant / Professor Marco Becht
Adriano is a member of Oxera's Competition and Regulation teams, and specialises in competition analysis, regulatory economics and microeconomics. He graduated with an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in July 2014, where he specialised in industrial organisation, econometrics and microeconomics. Prior to this, he completed his undergraduate studies in Economics and Management at the University of Trento, Italy.
Adriano has advised a number of clients across a range of sectors on various regulatory and competition issues. His areas of focus include market investigations, antitrust and follow-on damages cases.
Adriano speaks English, Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Alan has 30 years of professional experience in applying economics to aid decision-making, in particular in the regulated sectors. He specialises in efficiency measurement and assessments, regulatory reform and regulatory incentive design.
He has provided strategic advice and expert evidence on mergers and acquisitions, regulatory due diligence, business planning, regulatory determinations, appeals and court cases. He has advised companies, investors, governments and regulatory authorities in the water, energy, transport, financial services and communications sectors across Europe.
Alan is co-author of A Practitioner's Guide to Stochastic Frontier Analysis using Stata with S. Kumbhakar and H.-J. Wang, published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. The book provides practitioners in academia and industry with a step-by-step guide on how to conduct efficiency analysis using the econometric approach, stochastic frontier analysis.
Alec is a member of Oxera's Analytics team, and specialises in econometrics and data science. He has provided data-driven solutions to a range of clients, across various sectors, in commercial disputes, policy evaluations and in a modelling context. He has also applied his analytical skills in the context of modelling energy markets, performing Big Data analysis and applying machine-learning algorithms.
Alec joined Oxera as an Intern in 2021, before completing his MA in Economics from the University of St.Gallen, where he specialised in analytics and data science.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of the Finance & Valuation Team
Aleksei is a member of the Finance & Valuation team at Oxera. His work involves applying corporate finance principles to a range of projects across sectors and geographies, with a particular focus on regulatory finance and state aid.
Aleksei joined Oxera in 2018 after completing a Master's degree in Finance at the IE Business School, Spain, focusing on corporate finance and valuation. Prior to this, Aleksei completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at Moscow State University, Russia. During his studies, he focused on macroeconomics and corporate finance. He has previously worked as an Intern at two Big Four firms in Corporate Finance and Audit.
Aleksei speaks English, and Russian.
Job Titles:
- Analyst / Professor Alfredo Macchiati
- Associate Editor of Mercato Concorrenza Regole
- Consultant / Professor Alfredo Macchiati
- Partner / Professor Alfredo Macchiati
Alfredo's professional experience encompasses research and analysis of regulation and competition for institutions such as CONSOB and Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, and for firms such as Enel and Ferrovie dello Stato. From 2011 to 2015 he was Director General of Cassa Conguaglio per il settore elettrico (CCSE), the Italian clearing house of the electricity and gas sector. He was subsequently Senior Adviser at the infrastructure investor CDP Reti, where he advised on regulatory and antitrust issues. Alongside his work in business, Alfredo has taught at several Italian universities, including the University of Bologna, Tuscia University, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and LUISS Guido Carli, where he currently leads the Economic Policy course in the Department of Political Science.
Alfredo is associate editor of Mercato Concorrenza Regole, and author of numerous publications on public utilities regulation, privatisation, financial markets and economic policy. His book, Perché I'Italia cresce poco, was published by Il Mulino in 2016.
Andrea is a member of Oxera's Finance & Valuation team. He has worked on commercial disputes, state aid and regulatoy finance projects across different geographies, mainly in the energy and transport sectors. Before joining Oxera, Andrea worked as a Data Analyst for a fintech company, processing private equity funds data, while completing his Master's degree in Financial Economics at EDHEC Business School.
Andrea speaks English, and Italian.
Andrea is a member of Oxera's Competition team. He uses economics and analytical tools to provide solutions to a wide range of competition issues. He has worked on a variety of projects covering impact assessments, state aid, mergers and antitrust. He holds an MSc in Economics and Social Science from Bocconi University, where he specialised in economic theory and econometrics.
Before joining Oxera, he worked as a research assistant, and completed an internship as a data analyst in a strategy consulting firm focusing on financial services.
Andrea speaks English, and Italian.
Job Titles:
- Analyst
- Member of Oxera 's Analytics
Andreas is a member of Oxera's Analytics and Competition teams, where he specialises in quantitative analysis and econometrics. He joined Oxera in 2022, having previously interned at other economic consultancies in Norway and the UK. Andreas holds an MSc Economics from Bocconi University, where he focused on microeconomics and applied econometrics. He obtained undergraduate degrees from the National University of Singapore and Sciences Po Paris.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant in Oxera 's Digital
Andreea is a Senior Consultant in Oxera's Digital practice and a member of the Competition and Analytics teams. She has experience in market investigations, merger reviews, damages estimation, data valuation and public policy assessments. Her work has involved advising a range of clients from goods manufacturers to online platforms.
Before joining Oxera in 2017, Andreea completed an MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford focusing on industrial organisation and econometrics. She also worked as a research assistant on projects ranging from impact evaluation, the analysis of labour markets and immigration to developing differential privacy algorithms for open data.
Andreea speaks English, and Romanian.
Andrew is head of Oxera's Transport team and specialises in the economics of the sector. He draws together different types of economic and finance analysis to find solutions in collaboration with clients. He builds long-term relationships that enable him to propose and implement solutions on behalf of the sector and its stakeholders.
Andrew supports clients across Europe and further afield, and he regularly provides expert testimony to courts, parliaments and round tables, as well as commercial advice to governments and businesses. He has more than 20 years' experience of working on infrastructure and operations across the transport modes, covering aviation, public transport, logistics and maritime.
Andrew speaks English, and German.
Anna is a member of Oxera's Competition and Transport teams. She has advised clients in Europe, Canada, Asia and South America on a wide range of competition issues such as mergers, abuse of dominance, and antitrust damages, in the context of investigations by competition authorities and in private litigation. She has experience in the aviation sector, as well as many other sectors such as telecoms and retail.
Anna has regularly presented to lawyers and corporate clients on a wide variety of topics. Before joining Oxera in 2015, she completed an internship in the Chief Economist's Team of the Directorate General for Competition at the European Commission in Brussels, where she worked on a Phase II merger. She also worked as an intern at SEO Economic Research in the Netherlands. Anna has an MSc in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, focusing on industrial organisation and competition policy
Antoine is part of Oxera's Competition team and has worked on various competition cases, including antitrust litigations, antitrust damages, mergers and market investigations, across sectors such as telecoms and media, payment systems, transport (railways) and the waste management sector.
Antoine joined Oxera in February 2021 after completing an Advanced Master in quantitative methods for economic and financial decisions at ENSAE and a Masters in corporate finance and strategy at Sciences Po (Paris). He also participated in a three-month student ‘business project' where he analysed real e-commerce data provided by the main challenger of Amazon in France.
During his studies, Antoine completed off-cycle internships at an competition economics consultancy in Paris and at the economic research department of Coface, a leading trade credit insurer. Before joining Oxera, he worked for several years at the OECD as an economic analyst in the fields of public procurement and regional and urban development.
Antoine speaks English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of Oxera 's Finance
- Senior Consultant / Professor Dr Christoph Kaserer
Antonio is a member of Oxera's Finance and Valuation team. He specialises in regulatory finance, valuation and damage estimation. In particular, he has experience in working on various aspects of the Italian transport and energy regulation, as well as UK water and energy regulation. He has advised various clients on the cost of capital estimation and financial modelling in a number of due diligence cases regarding regulated assets, and he has advised companies and law firms on valuation issues in litigations and international arbitrations.
Antonio regularly delivers sessions at Oxera's Utility Finance course held in Italy, as well as ad hoc workshops for clients. Before joining Oxera in 2018, Antonio studied economics and finance at the University of Siena and the University of Durham.
Antonio speaks English, and Italian.
Before joining Oxera, Asal collaborated with an author from the London School of Economics and Political Science on a forthcoming book.
Prior to this, she completed a Master's degree at the University of Warwick, with a focus on ESG investment strategies. She also holds a Master's in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and completed an undergraduate degree in Economics and Management at King's College London.
Bastian is an expert in energy economics, financial valuation and damages quantification. He provides economic dispute support in investment arbitration, commercial disputes and tax disputes.
Bastian has 15 years' experience in economic consulting encompassing economic analysis of competitive and regulated markets, complex valuation analysis and damages assessment, expert testimony in high-stakes energy arbitrations, and economic dispute support in international tax disputes relating to transfer pricing.
Before joining Oxera in 2022, he worked at NERA, where he acted mainly as a party-appointed expert witness in energy arbitration and other commercial disputes. His expert witness experience includes the preparation of expert and rebuttal reports, oral testimony under cross-examination, and expert witness conferencing in energy arbitrations. In commercial disputes relating to long-term contracts, Bastian testified before arbitral tribunals on gas and storage markets and competition analysis, such as market definition and margin control. In the context of international tax disputes, he performed economic assessments of transfer pricing issues that had arisen at multinational companies in Germany, the UK, France and Australia.
Bastian is experienced in Mergers & Acquisitions: he acted as M&A adviser in the energy and infrastructure team of the investment bank Rothschild. He also has professional experience as an economic analyst with Ernst & Young London, where he started his career in 2004.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant / Professor Alfredo Macchiati
Beatrice is part of Oxera's Competition team. She joined Oxera in 2018 after completing her Master's degree in Economics in Italy. During her studies, she focused on industrial organisation, microeconomics and econometrics. She has worked on a wide range of competition issues in a variety of sectors, including merger investigations by both the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), follow-on antitrust damages and abuse of dominance.
Prior to joining Oxera, Beatrice worked for the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission. As part of the Chief Economist Team, she supported the quantitative analysis of a merger case in the agro-chemistry sector.
Beatrice speaks English, and Italian.
Job Titles:
- Member of Oxera 's Competition
- Technical Adviser
Bertram is a member of Oxera's Competition and Financial Services teams. Before joining Oxera, he worked at another international economic consulting firm, and subsequently at the UK Competition and Markets Authority, advising clients on competition issues. Bertram's work focuses on economic analysis in the context of market investigations, merger inquiries and litigation. He has advised clients across a wide range of sectors including energy, financial services, healthcare, mining, retail and telecoms. Bertram is listed in the Global Competition Review's Who's Who Legal: Competition Economists-Future Leaders.
Bertram speaks English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of Oxera 's Competition
Callum is a member of Oxera's Competition, Regulation & Market Design and Financial Services teams. Prior to joining Oxera in 2018, he worked at Ipsos MORI, a global market research firm. Here, he specialised in customer research for the financial services sector, advising a range of multinational firms on their global customer research programmes.
Callum holds a Masters degree in Economics from University College London, where his curriculum focused on game theory, econometrics and industrial organisation; and an undergraduate degree in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford.
Callum speaks English.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of Oxera 's Energy
- Senior Consultant / Professor Marco Becht
Carlotta is a member of Oxera's Energy team and Team DACH, working across the areas of regulation, market design and competition. She supports energy clients on regulatory design, cost assessments and network tariffs, as well as abuse of dominance, mergers and state aid. Additionally, she has experience of calculating follow-on damages in cartel cases. Carlotta has taught on the topic of regulatory incentives at Oxera's Utility Finance course and on economic tools for calculating cartel damages at the Academy of European Law (ERA). Prior to joining Oxera in 2017, she worked at another economics consultancy where she specialised in market and auction design in the telecoms and energy sectors.
Carlotta speaks English, and German.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Member of Oxera 's Transport
Célia is a member of Oxera's Transport and Analytics teams. She specialises in applying quantitative methods to a diverse range of economic issues. She also has experience in applying econometric and other quantitative methods to various projects including mergers and acquisitions, cartels, impact assessments, and cases of abuse of dominance.
Before joining Oxera, Célia obtained a Master's degree in Managerial and Financial Economics from HEC Paris, specialising in econometrics. During her studies, she completed an internship in the economic studies department of an international research institute.
Célia speaks English, and French.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Partner
Anastasia has experience advising clients in a wide range of competition and civil litigation cases across a variety of sectors. She joined Oxera's Paris office in 2021 after working for six years as a Manager at MAPP-KPMG in Paris. She has been involved in several merger and antitrust cases before the European Commission and in different European jurisdictions-primarily in France and Belgium. She has expertise in a range of sectors including fast-moving consumer goods, online commerce, energy, transport, telecoms, and medical equipment.
Anastasia has also advised clients and conducted competition policy workshops in Eastern Europe, in particular in Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. She has presented at the Annual Global Antitrust Forum in Ukraine (2017), and led a Competition Policy workshop on economic analysis organised by the International School of Economics in Tbilisi for economists and legal advisers at the Georgian Competition Authority and Policy institute (2016).
Anastasia speaks English, French, and Russian.
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- Partner and Chief Operating Officer / Professor Dr Christoph Kaserer
- Professor
- Senior Consultant / Professor Dr Christoph Kaserer
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- Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant / Professor Marco Becht
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- Partner
- Partner / Professor Tim Jenkinson
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- Data Scientist Consultant
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- Senior Consultant / Professor Jordi Gual
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- Analyst / Professor Emmanuel Thanassoulis
- Senior Consultant / Professor Emmanuel Thanassoulis
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- Associate
- Associate Professor Marco Becht
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- Senior Consultant
- Senior Consultant / Professor Emmanuel Thanassoulis
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- Senior Consultant / Professor Jordi Gual
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- Consultant
- Consultant / Professor Subal Kumbhakar
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- Consultant / Professor Julian Wright
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- Associate Professor Marco Becht
- Senior Consultant / Professor Marco Becht
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- Chief Information Officer
- Principal
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- Prinicipal and Head of HR
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- Analyst
- Analyst / Professor Emmanuel Thanassoulis
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- Partner
- Partner / Professor Alfredo Macchiati
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- Consultant / Professor Subal Kumbhakar
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- Partner / Professor Tim Jenkinson
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- Analyst
- Analyst / Professor Alfredo Macchiati
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- Consultant / Professor Julian Wright