Manuel Ramos Montiel

Counsel

Leads competition projects in digital markets between other sectors, regulatory policy, consumer protection, standards, and technical regulations (Mexican Official Standards). He has advocated for clients before the Mexican Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE) in complex investigations regarding unilateral conducts, competition barriers, cartel investigations, and concentrations. Further, he has advised clients on compliance programs.

 

From 2010 to 2013 he was the General Director of Procedures, Chief Legal Officer and Advisor, and General Director of Litigation and Resources of the Mexican Federal Consumer’s Advocate Office (PROFECO). Further, from 2007 and 2010 he was the Joint General Director of Operations of the General Directorate of Standards at the Mexican Secretariat of Economy and carried out regulatory impact analyses at the Mexican Federal Commission of Regulatory Improvement.

 

He is a law graduate from the Universidad de Guanajuato and has a master’s degree in Comparative Public Policies of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Mexico. He attended the Digital Markets Competition program of the Barcelona School of Economics.

Manuel has been a guest professor and taught courses in the Regulatory Policies master’s program of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), and it is a member of the CONAR (Mexican Board of Advertising Autoregulation and Ethics, a NGO.)

Working languages: English and Spanish.