Antonio Nicita is Professor of Economic Policy at Lumsa University and President of the Scuola di Politiche in Rome. Antonio has been Associate Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Sapienza and Siena, and was Visiting Fulbright Professor at Yale University. In 2005-06 he was a Non-Governmental Adviser of International Competition Network (ICN) for the report on telecommunications sector. He is on the Board of Directors of the Italian Society of Law and Economics, European Association of Law and Economics and of the International Society for New Istitutional Economics (ISNIE). In 2006-07 he was an economic adviser to the Italian Minister of Communications and member of the Governmental Unit for the Improvement of Regulation. He was Economic Adviser for the 2009 OECD Regulatory Report on Italy. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Siena, Italy. His research interests cover Industrial organization, Law and Economics, Competition Economics and Regulation.