PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


May 2023 - Present

Science for Policy Analyst at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra (Milan, Italy)

 


January 2020 - May 2023

Case handler in merger control in the services sector (e.g.: Bankia-Caixabank merger) and antitrust enforcement cases (e.g.: I led the quantitative analysis and drafting of findings in the abuse of dominance case "CORREOS3"). Member of the Chief Economist Working Group in the European Competition Network (ECN).  


September 2020 - February 2023

Adjunct Lecturer in Econometrics, Statistics and Mathematics for Economics at Universidad Carlos III and Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid (Spain)

 


Sept. 2017 - Dec. 2019

Senior lecturer (full-time) in Quantitative Methods in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics / School of Business and Economics at CEU San Pablo University (Madrid). Main courses from English-taught undergraduate programs: 

  • Descriptive Statistics
  • Inferential Statistics
  • Econometrics
  • Computer based quantitative methods
  • Applied Mathematics for Economics

January - September 2017 

 

Adjunct Lecturer in Econometrics at Universidad Carlos III (Madrid)


 

January 2016 - August 2017

 

Senior Consultant in Competition Economics at KPMG and Solchaga Recio & Asociados (Madrid, Spain)

 

Achievements:

  • Lead empirical and theoretical studies / reports / expert witness cases on competition policy and regulation  study of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) market (demand estimation modeling), banking and media expert witness cases
  •  Report about the effects of the digital economy in the job market. International cooperation to regulate the digital economy

Oct. 2012- Dic. 2015

Assistant Economist at Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and previously at Competition Commission in the UK (London). Projects/markets and most relevant achievements:

  • Water industry – regulatory appeal: development of the econometric cost models in the water industry.
  • Energy market - investigation: assessment of retail price agreements between energy companies. Sales channels analysis.
  • Residential property market - study: application of the “principalagent” problem to this market. Survey analysis of leaseholders and social housing associations.
  • Car insurance market  - investigation: development of econometric cost models in the car insurance market. Assessment of “most favored nation clauses” used by “price comparison websites” and its effect in competition.
  • Radio market - merger: development of the “price concentration analysis” to assess the effect of the merger in advertising prices.
  • Health care market - investigation: assessment of competition between private hospitals in several areas in the UK (catchment area analysis).       

  • Golf market - CA98 case: Market definition to analyse effect on competition due to vertical restraints for on-line sales.
  • Gyms market – Evaluation analysis of an enforcement case to help consumers switching gyms.

May 2009 - Sept. 2012

Economist in the Studies and Statistics department at CMT. Spanish Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Barcelona). Main duties:

  • Responsible of “the broadband retail price benchmarking report in the EU”.
  • Responsible of the “E-commerce report in Spain”.
  • Econometric and data analysis of the Spanish telecoms sector.
  • Present the Spanish telecommunications data in EU meetings at DGCONNECT (European Commission).

May - July 2012

Seconded National Expert at DG-CONNECT, European Commission (Brussels). Most important achievement:

  • Draft the broadband chapter and state of the telecoms sector for the Scoreboard 2012.

July 2005 - June 2007

Oct. 2008 - Apr. 2009


Financial Analyst in the Front Office at Banco de España, Spanish National Central Bank (Madrid):

  • Cooperate carrying out open market operations through main, longerterm and fine-tuning refinancing operations which play a key role in the Euro system’s monetary policy.
  • Execute liquidity providing and absorbing Spanish tenders (Spanish Public Treasury tenders).
  • Be in charge of the possible standing facilities requested by Spanish counterparties.
  • Monitor and analyse the evolution of global financial markets and the follow up and daily update of internal notes about the money market.

Feb. - June 2005

Analyst in the Studies Department at ICO, Spanish State-owned Bank (Madrid).