Saverio Valentino

Commissioner of the Italian Competition Authority

Born in Rome in 1971, Saverio Valentino has served as Commissioner of the Italian Competition Authority since 13 June 2023.
An experienced attorney, he built his career specialising in Italian and EU competition law. Prior to his appointment, he represented clients before the courts of the European Union, Italian civil and administrative courts, the European Commission, the Italian Competition Authority and a number of competition authorities worldwide.

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).