Massimo Motta is Research Professor at ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and at the Barcelona School of Economics. He founded the BSE's Master in Competition and Market Regulation and he is on the steering committee of this Master.
He served as Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission from 2013 to 2016.
He has extensive experience in advising competition agencies on cases and policy, teaching competition policy (to lawyers, economists, agency officials, and in undergraduate, graduate, and training courses) and in supervising doctoral dissertations. His former students have obtained important positions in academia, consulting firms, and in competition and regulatory agencies.
