Guido Stazi is the new general secretary of theAntitrust and takes the place of Filippo Arena, who moved to the Gatti Pavesi Bianchi Ludovici law firm. This was announced in a note from the Antitrust Authority which underlines this as the first time – in the Authority's thirty-two year history – in which the role of general secretary has been entrusted to an internal manager.
Stazi was appointed by the Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti on the proposal of the president of the Agcm Robert Rustichelli. His appointment comes following a professional career that has seen him within the Authority since its foundation in 1990. A return "home" that has not prevented Stazi from also serving at Agcom as head of cabinet when Corrado Calabrò was president and later at Consob as general secretary. He is certainly one of the leading experts in the field of Antitrust.
Biography of Guido Stazi, new general secretary of the Antitrust
Born in 1957, Stazi graduated in law from the University of Rome "La Sapienza". From 1984 to 1990 he was university assistant to professor Franco Romani at the Sapienza University and at the chair of finance science and financial law at the law faculty of the LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome. He taught Economics and Competition Policy in the Faculty of Economics and Banking at the University of Siena in the academic years 1995-1996 and 1996-1997.
He has held positions at the top of various independent Italian Authorities: he has been Chief of Cabinet of the Communications Authority (from 2005 to 2012) and Secretary General of the National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (Consob) until 2018. He is currently head of the Committee for Economic Evaluations of the Antitrust.
Author of writings and volumes on antitrust, legal and economic regulation in the electronic communications and financial sectors, Stazi is one of the leading experts on the topics of the digital revolution and the market power of large US companies. He is also a columnist for the newspaper MF Milano Finanza, where he has published interventions on current domestic and international political issues and on major economic issues.
