Benjamín Oliva

Benjamín Oliva provides economic advice to companies in cases of merger control, vertical restraints, abuse of dominance and several others antitrust issues in sectors such as air transport, freight transport, retail, medical diagnostic services, telecommunications and broadcasting, and payment systems. 

He is a Statistics and Econometrics Adjunct Professor at CIDE (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) and UNAM (Facultad de Economía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).

Previously to joining GAMES Econ, he was a consultant with the international consulting firm Global Economics Group. Prior to that, he headed the Deputy Directorate General for Market Investigations at the Mexican Antitrust Agency (COFECE). In this role, he led investigations in sectors such as air and freight transport. Before this, he was an economist at Telmex (a Mexican telecommunications company), where he worked in in antitrust and regulatory issues.

He was named expert witness for the specialized tribunals in economic competition, telecommunications, and broadcasting in Mexico.

He is an expert in the implementation of data mining, visualization, and analysis solutions such as SQL, Mongo DB, SAS, R, Stata, Matlab, Tableau, Python, HTML y JavaScrip (Highcharts, Plotly and D3), C, QGIS y ArcGis.

He is constantly updating his expertise with courses such as Machine Learning (2021), Data Analytics (2020), School of data science of the Institute of Mathematics of the UNAM (2019, 2020 y 2021), Abuse of Dominance (2018), Energy Law (2016).