Albert Banal-Estanol

Dr Albert Banal-Estanol is an Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Affiliated Professor at City University of London, Visiting Professor at College of Europe in Brugge, and research fellow at the IESE Business School and at the DIW Berlin. Previously, he has held teaching and research positions at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, IFP-Energies Nouvelles in France, Northwestern University in the US, the University of Cambridge and London Business School in the UK and the University of Mannheim in Germany. Albert is the director of the MSc in Finance and Banking at UPF and the former director of the MSc in Competition and Regulation at City University of London.

Albert has over 15 years of experience undertaking research, teaching and consultancy in the areas of competition policy, regulation and business strategy. Albert has published more than 20 articles in some of the most prestigious academic journals in the field, such as the Journal of Industrial Economics, the International Journal of Industrial Organisation, Management Science and the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy.

Albert has provided consultancy advice in several competition cases and is a current member of the Academic Panels of the UK’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and the UK’s energy regulator, the Office for Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem). He has also acted as a technical expert for several reports for competition authorities and regulation agencies such as the UK’s OFT and the European Commission’s DG Competition.

Albert has organised and delivered an extensive range of more than 20 professionally-oriented executive training courses for (i) competition authorities and regulators such as Mexico’s CRE (energy) and IFT (telecom) and the UK’s Ofgem (energy), (ii) government agencies such as the UK’s Department of Trade and Industry and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and (iii) private companies such as Gaz de France. Albert has also organised and delivered several courses on competition and regulation for regulators across Africa in collaboration with the World Bank, the EU and the African Forum for Utility Regulators.

A detailed CV can be downloaded here.