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Giovanna Ariel Ventre Consultant

Giovanna is a member of Oxera’s Competition and Analytics teams. She uses economics and analytical tools to provide solutions for a broad range of competition-related issues across various sectors. Her expertise spans assessments of mergers conducted by competition authorities, follow-on antitrust damages, abuse of dominance cases, IP rights violations, and damages estimations.

Giovanna holds a BSc (2019) and MSc (2021) in Economic and Social Sciences from Bocconi University, where she specialised in competition economics, industrial organisation, and econometrics. Before joining Oxera, she worked as a research assistant in the field of industrial organisation at Bocconi University.

Giovanna speaks English, Italian, and Spanish.

Tel: +44 1865 253086

Giovanna's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Supported a UK company with quantifying the damages resulting from an unlawful injunction of a pharmaceutical product (2024)

  • Empirical analysis for quantifying damages in a commercial dispute in the pharmaceutical sector (2023–24)

  • Ex ante assessment of the anticompetitive effects of a merger in the white goods sector for the European Commission and the UK Competition and Market Authority (2023)

  • Guided a prominent digital company in its defense against allegations of abusing its dominant position. This included assessing the relevant market and alleged conduct, as well as utilising data science techniques to analyse extensive datasets (2023)

  • Supported the Commonwealth of Australia with quantifying the damages resulting from an unlawful injunction of a pharmaceutical product (2022–23)

  • Ex ante assessment of the anticompetitive effects of a merger in the commercial real estate sector for the UK Competition and Markets Authority (2022)

Qualifications

  • MSc Economic and Social Science, Bocconi University, Italy

  • BA Economic and Social Science, Bocconi University, Italy

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