Leading Academic Economists in Europe Affiliate with Compass Lexecon

Compass Lexecon is delighted to announce that academics Patrick Coen, Alexander Teytelboym, and Alexandre De Cornière have affiliated with the firm.

Patrick Coen is an Assistant Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, specializing in financial economics, industrial organization and competition policy, bringing 14 years of experience of working in economics. Professor Coen’s most recent position prior to joining the Toulouse School of Economics was Technical Specialist at the Financial Conduct Authority, he also spent three years working as Assistant Director of Economics at the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

Alexander Teytelboym is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, he is also a Tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. Prior to this, Alexander was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision systems at MIT. His primary research field is applied microeconomic theory and his secondary fields are market design, economics of networks, and environmental economics. He is also a co-founder of Refugees.AI, an organization that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement.

Alexandre De Cornière is an industrial economist and an Assistant Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and a member at TSE Digital Center. Prior to this, he was a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the digital economy: platform strategies, competition, regulation, and antitrust. His work has been published in The RAND Journal of Economics and the American Economic Journal.

Jorge Padilla, Senior Managing Director of Compass Lexecon EMEA commented: “We welcome Patrick, Alexandre and Alexander to our community of academic affiliates. We expect them to make significant contributions to our cases and more generally to our newly built research team. Our goal is to deliver sound and solid advice based on state-of-the-art tools and the most advanced theories. These three experts will help us to achieve such a goal to the benefit of our clients, the decision-making process, and the economics profession.”