Daniele Calisti joined the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition in 2008, where he first worked in the European Competition Network Unit. As a member of the Private Enforcement Unit, Dr Calisti worked on all the EU policy initiatives on damages actions for breaches of the EU antitrust rules, from the 2008 White Paper to the 2013 proposal for a Directive. A graduate of the School of Law at LUISS University in Rome, Dr Calisti holds an LLM in European Law from King’s College London and a PhD in Public Law and Economics from La Sapienza University in Rome. Prior to joining the European Commission, he also served as an advisor on the implementation of EU law to the Chair of the Committee for Legislation of the Italian Parliament.
