Vanessa is a member of Oxera’s Financial Services and Analytics teams. Her work in the financial services sector includes advising banks and payment services providers in market investigations, merger reviews and abuse of dominance investigations led by the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission. She has led a number of works in the design and functioning of equity markets, including a study for the European Commission on the primary and secondary equity markets.

Vanessa has also worked as Principal Economist for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, advising on banking mergers, market inquiry into the retail deposit products, and several reports for the Digital Platform Services Inquiry.

Prior to joining Oxera, Vanessa worked as a competition economist at the UK Financial Conduct Authority, leading the economic analysis for multiple market studies including the Investment Platforms and General Insurance Pricing Practices market studies.

Vanessa has a PhD in Economics from Indiana University, USA, focusing on microeconometrics, industrial organisation and finance. She has also previously taught microeconomics and game theory at undergraduate level at Indiana University Bloomington.