Portrait of Dr Emiel Awad

Dr Emiel Awad Consultant

Emiel is a member of Oxera’s Competition team. He applies economic principles and analytical tools to provide solutions to a range of client issues. He works on projects relating to cartels, mergers, estimation of damages, and market dominance, as well as regulatory policy.

Prior to joining Oxera, Emiel studied economics and political science at Leiden University and Erasmus University, and completed a PhD in political science at the University of Rochester, with a focus on lobbying, policy-making and organisational design. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was also an Associate Research Scholar in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he was a member of the Program for Quantitative and Analytical Political Science. Emiel specialises in mathematical modelling and game theory.

Emiel speaks English, and Dutch.

Tel: +31 2089 91102

Emiel's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Providing economic advice in the context of a consumer class action relating to an alleged abuse of dominance by a payment application provider (2024–)

  • Providing economic advice in the context of cartel damages claims relating to the Trucks infringement in multiple European jurisdictions (2024–)

  • Conducted analysis in the context of electricity and gas regulation in the Netherlands (2024–2025)

  • Conducted market analysis in the context of AMD’s acquisition of ZT in the semiconductors and server design markets before multiple competition authorities (2024–25)

Selected
publications

  • Awad, E., Judd, G. and Riquelme, N. (2025), ‘Learning by lobbying’, American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

  • Awad, E. and Minaudier, C. (2025), ‘Persuasive lobbying and the value of connections’, American Journal of Political Science, forthcoming.

  • Awad, E. and Riquelme, N. (2024), ‘International Cooperation, Information Transmission, and Delegation’, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 19:2, pp. 217–242.

  • Awad, E. (2024), ‘Understanding influence in informational lobbying’, Interest Groups & Advocacy, 13:1, pp. 1–19.

  • Awad, E. (2020), ‘Persuasive Lobbying with Allied Legislators’, American Journal of Political Science, 64:4, pp. 938–951.

Qualifications

  • PhD Political Science, University of Rochester, USA

  • MA Political Science, University of Rochester, USA

  • MSc Economics of Management and Organisation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • MSc International Public Management and Policy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • BSc Economics and Business Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

  • BSc Political Science, Leiden University, the Netherlands

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