Paolo BUCCIROSSI - Lear

Paolo is the Director and the founder of Lear. Paolo has been working in the field of competition policy since 1994. After five years as economic advisor at the Italian Competition Authority, Paolo set up Lear in 1999. Since then Paolo has advised private clients and public institutions on a range of competition issues, including cartel cases and competition investigations in a variety of industries, before the European Commission and various national competition authorities. He has assisted, among others, Shell, Bayer, Buena Vista International, Schindler, Granarolo, Procter & Gamble, Carnival Corporation, RTI, Numico, Unilever and Emerson. Paolo has also cooperated with the Bulgarian and the Lithuanian governments in the implementation of a national competition policy regime and has advised the Dutch and the Czech Competition Authorities on their system of sanctions for breaches of competition law. He has lead several research projects for the OFT and the European Commission. Paolo has also published on several academic journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Industrial Economics and the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and is the editor of the Handbook of Antitrust Economics (MIT Press). He lectures on competition economics in several Italian Universities, including LUISS and Tor Vergata in Rome and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Lucca. He holds an MSc in Public Economics and a PhD in Economics awarded from University La Sapienza (Roma, Italy). Paolo was a Visiting Scholar at George Mason University, New York University and Cambridge University.