Luisa Affuso

Luisa Affuso is our Chief Economist, and Economics Group Director, leading our economists who help to ensure our decisions are underpinned by expert economic analysis.

Luisa has over twenty years’ experience in the application of competition, regulatory, and industrial economics. She specialises in applying economic and econometric analysis to complex competition and regulatory questions.

Luisa joined Ofcom in October 2018 from PwC, where she headed the Competition Economics advisory practice.

Before becoming an economic consultant, Luisa was Director of Studies and Fellow in Economics at Robinson College, Cambridge; and a Research Fellow at Cambridge and then the London Business School. She is currently a Senior Member of Robinson College.

Luisa was educated at the University of Warwick, where she obtained an MSc and PhD in Economics. She holds a BSc and Doctorate in Economics from the University of Naples (Federico II), Italy.