Andrea Coscelli

Andrea Coscelli CBE (born 11 February 1969) is a British economist and businessperson serving as chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

Andrea Coscelli
Chief Executive of the
Competition and Markets Authority
Assumed office
July 2016
Prime MinisterTheresa May
Boris Johnson
Preceded byAlex Chisholm
Personal details
Born (1969-02-11) February 11, 1969
Alma materStanford University
Bocconi University

Education

Andrea Coscelli completed a Laurea in Economics at Bocconi University, Italy.[1] He has also completed a PhD in Economics from Stanford University[2]

Career

Andrea Coscelli has been the Chief Executive of the CMA since July 2016.[2][3]

He joined the CMA in November 2013 as Executive Director, Markets and Mergers (the Executive Board member leading the directorate responsible for UK merger control, the markets regime and the CMA's work in regulated sectors).

He previously held roles at Ofcom, as Director of Economic Analysis and Charles River Associates, as Vice President (Partner) in the organisation's Competition Practice in London.[2]

Andrea co-founded the not-for-profit organisation, the Association of Competition Economics (ACE) in 2003[2] which aims to bring together competition economists working in government, academia and the private sector to debate and discuss policies and specific cases.[4]

Honours and awards

Andrea was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2020 New Year Honours for services to competitive markets.[5]

In 2019, Business Insider named Andrea 81st in their list of the 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019 after the CMA announced it was investigating Amazon's anticipated acquisition of Deliveroo.[6][7]

In 2019, Andrea was ranked 1st in Influence Weekly's list of '100 Most influential People in the United Kingdom'[8] following the CMA's consumer enforcement work to secure formal commitments from 16 celebrity influencers to stop undisclosed advertising in their social media posts.[9][10]

References
  1. "Antitrust and Market Liberalization in the UK Since Brexit". www.viasarfatti25.unibocconi.eu. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  2. "Dr Andrea Coscelli - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  3. Jul 26; Post | 0, 2017 | (2017-07-26). "Andrea Coscelli appointed CEO of UK's Competition and Markets Authority". Post & Parcel. Retrieved 2020-01-07.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. "About ACE - ACE". www.competitioneconomics.org. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  5. "New Year's Honours list in full". Evening Standard. 2019-12-27. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  6. Wood, Isobel Asher Hamilton, Mary Hanbury, Charlie. "UK Tech 100: The 100 most influential people shaping British technology in 2019". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  7. "Amazon / Deliveroo merger inquiry". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  8. "100 Most Influential People in Influencer Marketing". Influence Weekly. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  9. Wakefield, Jane (2019-01-23). "Social media stars agree to declare ads". Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  10. "Celebrities pledge to clean up their act on social media". GOV.UK. Retrieved 2020-01-07.
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