Andrea Pezzoli - AGCM

As from May 2012, Andrea Pezzoli is Chief Economist of the Italian Competition Authority, where he has worked since 1993 as head of the Investigative Directorate “Food, Pharmaceutical and Transport”.

He teaches Competition Issues at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and he was lecturer for the course on Competition Policy at the University of Rome La Sapienza.

Previously he was head of the Industrial Policy Unit of Centro Europa Ricerche (CER) and senior economist at the Research Department of Istituto Immobiliare Italiano (IMI).

Educated at the Rome University La Sapienza and at Lancaster University in UK, he published various articles on competition and industrial policy issues and spoke on antitrust issues at numerous conferences. In 2010, with Lapo Berti, he wrote “Le stagioni dell’antitrust. Dalla tutela della concorrenza alla tutela del consumatore”, Egea, Milano.