Dr. Adina Claici is a competition economics expert whose background combines consulting experience, academia and nearly a decade at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG Competition). She specialises in mergers, antitrust and state aid cases. She also provides clients with insights concerning competition policy and regulatory developments in the European Union and has supported the European Commission in European General Court hearings related to mergers and state aid.
Dr. Claici is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars and is named among the global leaders in competition economics by Who’s Who Legal. She has been published in numerous academic journals and authored several book chapters. In addition to her consulting work, Dr. Claici is a visiting professor at the College of Europe and at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
Before joining BRG, Dr. Claici was a principal at an economics consultancy’s Brussels office. Before that, she gained valuable experience at DG Competition, where she was a senior member of the Chief Economist’s team and served as the coordinator for the European Competition Network of Chief Economists.
Dr. Claici is fluent in Spanish, French, English and Romanian.
Feedback from our research
Adina Claici ranks as a go-to competition economist in the EU for antitrust, mergers and state-aid cases, where she receives praise for her "ability to keep perspective".