Tommaso Valletti is Professor of Economics at Imperial College London and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics. He is Director of the CEPR Research and Policy Network on Competition Policy and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the board of the UK Payment Systems Regulator. From 2016 to 2020, he was a board member of the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
Between 2016 and 2019, he served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission, overseeing the economic analysis of major merger cases such as Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange, Dow and DuPont, Bayer and Monsanto, Microsoft and LinkedIn, and Siemens and Alstom, as well as key state aid and antitrust investigations involving Google, Qualcomm, Mastercard, and VISA.
He holds degrees in engineering and economics, including a PhD from the London School of Economics, and has published widely on industrial economics and competition policy.