Portrait of Louise Damade

Louise Damade : Analyst

Louise is a member of Oxera’s Competition team. She has worked on several competition cases, including state aid and antitrust litigations, across a range of sectors such as finance, retail and postal services.

Louise holds a Master’s degree in Economics and Competition Law from Toulouse School of Economics, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Law from the same university. During her studies, she specialised in industrial organisation, competition economics, intellectual property and European competition law. Furthermore, she was the deputy editor of a student magazine, and served as a teaching assistant in macroeconomics for undergraduate students. Before joining Oxera in January 2022, she completed an internship in the Chief Economist Team at the Belgian Competition Authority.

Louise speaks English, and French.

Tel: +33 (0) 1 80 20 91 83

Louise's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advised a French government body on the impact of a policy called ’Bouclier qualité prix’ in the French overseas territories (2024)

  • Advised a buyer for a French merger in the electrical equipment sector (2024)

  • Advised a firm on how to compute in monetary terms the value that society places on some services (2022–24)

  • Advised Mastercard in the trial 1 ’Merchant Interchange Fee Umbrella Proceedings’ before the Competition Appeal Tribunal (2023)

  • Advised Louis Delhaize in the Cora/Match merger in the food distribution sector (2023)

  • Advised Novozymes in the Novozymes/Chr. Hansen European merger in the biotechnology sector (2023)

Qualifications

  • Master in Economics and Competition Law, Toulouse School of Economics, France

  • BSc Economics and Law, Toulouse School of Economics, France