Víctor Pavón-Villamayor is a Mexican economist with areas of interest in Antitrust
and Regulatory Economics. He got his M.Phil. (2002) and Ph.D. (2007) in Economics from
Oxford University.
As official of the Mexican Telecommunications Commission (1998- 2000), he was in charge
of providing economic evaluations of network interconnection rates for the Mexican
telecommunications industry. In the area of competition policy, he was an antitrust
economist (2006-2007) in the European Competition Policy Practice of 'Law and
Economics Consulting Group' (LECG) in Brussels, Belgium. During his time as
antitrust consultant, he was engaged in projects in industries as airlines, software,
intellectual property, energy and telecommunications.
During 2008-2009, Víctor Pavón-Villamayor was Senior Expert on Regulatory Reform &
Competition at the Mexican Ministry of Economics, where he was in charge of reviewing and
proposing regulatory reforms in key sectors of the economy in order to improve its
competitiveness. He has been antitrust consultant for the OECD, USAID and the United
Nations.
After a short stint as independent antitrust consultant, Víctor Pavón-Villamayor was
Chief of Advisors of the President of the Federal Telecommunications Commission in Mexico
(2010-2011). On September 2011, Dr. Pavón-Villamayor was appointed Director General for
Prospective Regulation at the same regulatory authority. Víctor Pavón-Villamayor has
taught economics in Mexico and Great Britain and he currently teaches regulatory
economics at ITAM & El Colegio de México.
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