Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro

Eduardo Pontual Ribeiro is a Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and co-Coordinator of the Research Group on Competition, Law and Economics (GDEC-IE / www.gdec-ie.com). He holds a BA in Economics from UFPE (1991), a MA in Economics from the University of Illinois (1993), and Ph.D. in Economics also from the University of Illinois (1996). He served as a Commissioner at the CADE Tribunal (Administrative Council for Economic Defense) from 2012 to 2014. He was Assistant Professor at UFRGS and Deputy Chief Economist and Chief Economist at CADE. The areas of expertise are Applied Microeconometrics, Competition Policy, Labor Markets and Public Sector Economics.