Senior Managing Director and Head of Compass Lexecon Europe. He is a Research Fellow at the Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI, Madrid) and teaches competition economics at the Executive Education program of the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE). He has given expert testimony before the competition authorities and courts of several EU member states, as well as in cases before the European Commission. Dr. Padilla has submitted written testimony to the European General Court, and the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal in cartel, merger control and abuse of dominance cases. He has also given expert testimony in various civil litigation (damages), international arbitration cases, and competition cases in non-EU jurisdictions (Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Israel, Jamaica, South Africa and Turkey). Dr. Padilla has written numerous papers on competition policy and industrial organization. He is also co-author of The Law and Economics of Article 102 TFEU, 3rd edition, Hart Publishing, 2020. Member of Fide’s Board of Trustees and Chair of Fide’s International Academic Council.