Francisco Espinosa is an Associate in the competition practice at Econic, based in Brussels. He specialises in developing rigorous economic theory and advanced computational tools to complex competition cases, with a particular focus on merger analysis. Before joining Econic, he was a Senior Managing Consultant at BRG. Before that, he was a Senior Associate at Positive Competition.
Francisco brings unique regulatory perspective to his work, having served as a Commissioner and Acting Chairman of the Foreign Trade Commission for the Government of Argentina, where he led trade remedy investigations.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University (NYU) and has published research in leading journals such as the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics. he has held teaching positions at the University of Chicago, NYU, and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina), where he taught advanced microeconomics and international trade, among other subjects.