Liliane Giardino-Karlinger is a Senior Economist at EFTA Surveillance Authority (Competition & State Aid Directorate), advising mainly on antitrust and state aid cases. She holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy), and spent 11 years in academia, first as Assistant Professor at the economics department of University of Vienna, and then at LUISS University in Rome.
From 2016-2021, she was an Economist at the Chief Economist Team at DG COMP (European Commission).
