Virginia Pavel Dobre is a competition inspector with the Romanian national competition authority, her usual tasks including instrumenting infringement cases, conducting dawn raids, merger analysis, as well as representing the competition authority with the European/international organisations. Her previous working experience includes offering legal consultancy to high profile companies, as an attorney at law, registered with the Bucharest Barr. Virginia holds a Phd degree, obtained in 2020, with a thesis on Intent in European competition law, from the University Paris Nanterre. Presently, she is also a Teaching assistant in European competition law with the Franco-Romanian Legal College in Bucharest.