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Joaquin Lopez-Valles

He is Director of the CNMC’s Competition Advocacy Department since 2017. He has been Head of Sectoral Policies at the Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister of Spain (2016-17), National Expert at DG Competition of the European Commission (2013-16), and Head of Market Studies at the Spanish competition agency (2011-13). Prior to that, he has worked for the Spanish competition agency and for the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance. Economist by training (University of Zaragoza, 2002), he has the qualification of ‘State Economist’ in Spain (2005).