Saverio Valentino appointed chairman of the Competition Authority

The Presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Ignazio La Russa and Lorenzo Fontana, today appointed Saverio Valentino, a lawyer, as President of the Competition and Market Authority. Valentino has been a member of the Authority since 13 June 2023. Prior to his appointment, he specialised primarily in Italian and European competition law, representing clients before the courts of the European Union, Italian administrative and civil courts, as well as the European Commission, the Italian Competition Authority and other competition authorities in various countries around the world.

He graduated with honours in law from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1995. He obtained a Master’s degree in European Union law (LL.M.) from the College of Europe in Bruges in 1996, as well as a Master’s degree in law (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. He also spent six months working with Directorate-General I of the European Commission, in the unit responsible for multilateral trade policies and issues relating to the World Trade Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

He has been a member of the Rome Bar Association since 1999 (admitted to practise before the Court of Cassation since 2013) and of the New York Bar Association since 2001. He regularly speaks at conferences and is the author of various legal publications, including: “AGCM’s new clothes: merger control call-in, market investigations, and other recent reforms of Italian competition law (Italy)”, in Journal of European Competition Law & Practice, 2025; “Sub-threshold mergers”, in G. Morbidelli and F. Cintioli (eds.), The Function and Scope of Antitrust Law: New and Old Issues (Il Mulino, 2025), “Article 102 TFEU on the Prohibition of the Abuse of a Dominant Position” and “Article 106 TFEU on Public Undertakings and Monopolies,” in Smit & Herzog on the Law of the European Union, (Matthew Bender, 2021).