Alberto Pera

Background

About Alberto Pera

A professional economist and a certified lawyer, he is one of the leading figures in the field of Italian Antitrust and Competition. Since 2017 he is Chairperson of the Italian Antitrust Association, comprising 60 law firms and economic consultancies active in the field of competion law and economics. in Italy He was an economist at the International Monetary Fund and the Chief Economist of IRI, the then holding of Italian State-owned enterprises. He thought courses on regulation at the University of Rome, LUISS University in Rome and the Università Cattolica di Milano. As an Advisor to the Italian goverment he negotiated the first EC merger regulation and was among the drafters of the first Italian Competition Law. For ten years he was the first Secretary General of the Italian Antitrust Authority. In he left the Authority to set up one of the leading Italian Antitrust law practices. He has been involved in some of the most important Italian antitrust cases and advises the goverment and public insitutions in the field of state aids. He is a frequent contributor to the debate concerning antitrust law and practices, and has written four books and a more than thirty articles on competition-related subjects.