Giulio has 25 years’ experience as a professional economist in the field of competition policy and energy, including 12 years as a senior economist at the European Commission, and over ten years as an economic consultant in the private sector.
During his time at the European Commission, he was Head of Unit in the Chief Economist Team of DG Competition, where he led the economic analysis on numerous merger investigations (including over 30 Phase II mergers, and more than 100 Phase I investigations) and on several antitrust matters in the energy, pharmaceutical and digital sectors. Between 2020 and 2023, he was Deputy Director and Head of Unit in the taskforce managing the Recovery and Resilience Facility (Next Generation EU), with responsibilities for the energy and environmental aspects of the Facility, and for the Spanish Recovery Plan.
He has been an external faculty member of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics since 2007, and was the President of the Association of Competition Economics in 2014 and 2015. He was a Research Fellow at IESE Business School between 2007 and 2011.
He holds a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford (Nuffield College). He has published several academic and policy papers in the field of competition policy and energy (including articles in the International Journal of Industrial Organization, the Review of Industrial Organization, the Journal of Regulatory Economics, and with the National Bureau of Economic Research).
Giulio speaks Italian, English, and Spanish.
Tel: +32 2793 0700
