CV

Oxera Consulting LLP (full time)

Dec 2021 - Current Senior Consultant

Apr 2020 - Dec 2021 Consultant

Oxera advises companies, policymakers, regulators and lawyers on any economic issue connected with competition, finance or regulation.

Utrecht University (0.2 FTE)

Aug 2023 - Current Assistant Professor

Aug 2020 - Jul 2023 Lecturer

Lecturer in Competition Economics for the LLM and MSc in Law and Economics.

Chief Economist Team (CET), DG Competition

Oct 2018 - Feb 2019 Blue Book Trainee

Provided methodological support in a major antitrust case and a Phase II merger investigation. Acted as trainee spokesperson at DG Competition.

University of Amsterdam

Sep 2015 - Feb 2020 Lecturer

0.2 FTE teaching position as part of my PhD. Past and current courses include Industrial Organisation, Finance, Game Theory, Econometrics, Regulation and The Economics of Markets and Organisations. I also supervise several BSc and MSc theses per year.

De Kleine Consultant

Jan 2017 - Dec 2017 Consultant and Project Manager

De Kleine Consultant (The Young Consultant) is a non-profit, student-run consultancy that provides strategic advice to organisations with a positive social impact but low financial means. Received continuous coaching and training from McKinsey, BCG, Bain and other major consultancies.

Frontier Economics

Jun 2015 - Aug 2015 Intern

Summer internship in economic consultancy. Provided analyst support on projects related to EU merger clearance, cartel allegations and damage estimation.

ONCAMPUS, Cambridge Education Group

Oct 2012 - Aug 2015 Lecturer

Part-time lecturer in Economics for an international pre-Bachelor programme.

PhD Competition Economics, University of Amsterdam

2016 - 2020

In my doctoral research I used theoretical, empirical and computational methods to look at novel competition policy concerns in digital and financial markets. See here for all publicly available working papers. I have been supervised by prof. dr. Maarten Pieter Schinkel.

I have presented my research at many academic conferences and have attended several academic summer schools and workshops, including the EASSS 2018 in Machine Learning (Maastricht, Netherlands), CRESSE Summer School 2018 in Competition Policy (Crete, Greece), AU Summer School 2019 course in Statistical Learning with Python (Aarhus, Denmark) and the NBER Young Scholars Workshop 2019 on the Economics of Artificial Intelligence (Toronto, Canada).

MPhil Economics, Tinbergen Institute

2014 - 2016

Two-year Research Master’s degree, with a specialisation in Industrial Organisation and Finance. The Tinbergen Institute is the joint institute for research and education in Economics, Econometrics and Finance of the University of Amsterdam, the VU University Amsterdam and Erasmus Rotterdam.

MSc Political Economy of Europe, LSE

2013 - 2014

Master’s degree in Political Economy of Europe’s Economic Union. Extracurricular activities included acting as programme representative and being treasurer of the LSE Student Union’s European Society.

BSc Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam

2009 - 2013

Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Business, with a minor in Law and Economics. Extracurricular activities included being council member in the faculty and central student council, organising and participating in a four-week consultancy project to Brazil and coordinating a study trip to Greece.

Language skills: Dutch (native), English (C2), German (B1)

Programming skills: Excel VBA, LaTeX, MATLAB, Python, R, Stata

References and teaching evaluations are available upon request.