Juan Briones Alonso

Juan Briones Alonso is an independent advisor in competition policy. He earned his degree in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, specializing in Economic Theory, and has a diploma in EU law from the Center of Constitutional Studies in Madrid.

He is a member of the Ilustre Colegio de Economistas de Madrid and of the American Economic Association. He belongs to the group of competition experts of the EU Commission’s EUROMED programme, is a member of the Association of Competition Economics and sits in the Management Committee of the Asociación para la Defensa de la Competencia, he is Associated Professor of the Instituto de Empresa and features in the list of 100 worldwide economic experts of the International Whos’s Who of Competition Lawyers and Economists.

• 8 years as an official of the EU Commission’s Merger Task Force, where he examined over a hundred merger cases in a wide variety of sectors. He drafted the EU guidelines on market definition and participated in the working groups responsible for the EU guidelines on vertical restraints and the EU guidelines for horizontal restrains.
• 2 years in the Antitrust Directorate for Services in DG COMP
• 2 years in private practice, as Associate Director at NERA where he was co-responsible of the Antitrust Policy Area in NERA Madrid and previously in the Antitrust Policy Area for Garrigues Andersen.
• Since 2002 as an independent advisor to companies and their legal representatives.