Saverio Valentino

Chairman

Saverio Valentino (Rome, 1971), a lawyer, was appointed President of the Italian Competition Authority on July 16, 2026.

He served as a member of the Italian Competition Authority from June 13, 2023, to July 15, 2026.

Prior to his appointment as a member of the Authority, Saverio Valentino focused primarily on Italian and European competition law, appearing before the European Union courts, 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.

Graduating cum laude with a J.D. from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1995, he went on to earn an LL.M. from the College of Europe in Bruges in 1996 and another from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. His academic training also included a six-month period at the European Commission’s Directorate-General I, working within the unit responsible for multilateral trade policy and issues involving the WTO and OECD.

Mr. Valentino was admitted to the Rome Bar in 1999 and qualified to practise before Italy’s highest court in 2013. He also gained admission to the New York Bar in 2001. A regular speaker at professional conferences, he is the author of several 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; “Le concentrazioni sotto-soglia” (Below-thresholds concentrations), in G. Morbidelli e F. Cintioli (eds.), Funzione e oggetto dell’Antitrust: nuove e vecchie questioni (Il Mulino, 2025) “Article 102 TFEU: Prohibition of the Abuse of a Dominant Position” and “Article 106 TFEU: Public Undertakings and Monopolies” in Smit & Herzog on the Law of the European Union (Matthew Bender, 2021).