Saverio Valentino
Commissioner
Saverio Valentino (Rome, 1971), attorney, has been a Board Member of the Italian Antitrust Authority since June 13, 2023.
Before his appointment as Board Member of the Authority, his practice mostly focused on Italian and EU competition law, appearing before the EU courts of law and Italian administrative and civil courts, as well as before the European Commission, the Italian Antitrust Authority, and various competition authorities across the world.
He received a J.D. degree, cum laude, from University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1995, an LL.M. degree from the College of Europe (Bruges) in 1996, and an LL.M. degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000. He also trained for a six-month period with the Directorate General I of the European Commission, in the unit dealing with multilateral commercial policies and WTO and OECD questions.
He was a member of the Bars in Rome since 1999 (admitted to practice before the highest court of Italy since 2013) and New York since 2001. He regularly lectures at conferences and is author of a number of essays, including “Article 102 TFEU on 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). He is recommended for Competition/European law by Legal 500 EMEA and Chambers Europe.