Gabriela earned a Master’s Degree in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain. She has a degree in Social Sciences, with a focus on Economics, from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). Gabriela’s experience spans industrial organization, regulation and competition policy, specializing in the telecommunications, environment, transportation and retail sectors. She has participated in more than 15 investigations relating to free competition (cartels, dominant position, mergers, etc.), more than 10 regulatory impact studies and more than 30 studies of quantification of damages and administrative fines. She is fluent in English.
Professional experience
Senior associate and head in our BFE+ economic practice area since 2015. Prior to that, Gabriela held several positions including Deputy Director of Sanctions and Incentives at the Environmental Evaluation and Control Agency (OEFA), Executive Officer of the Commission for the Defense of Free Competition at INDECOPI, as well as Analyst at the Business Relations Management and at the Regulatory Policies Areas of the Supervisory Agency for Private Investment in Telecommunications (OSIPTEL).
Academic Activity
Gabriela served as chair of the Economics of Strategy course at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and the Applied Industrial Organization and Game Theory and Strategy courses at Universidad San Martín de Porres and ESAN.
Acknowledgments
JJ/WBGSP
- Beneficiaria de la beca otorgada por el Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program (JJ/WBGSP) y la Obra Social La Caixa -Barcelona GSE Scholarship Program for students para estudiar el Máster of Science in Competition and Market Regulation.
Publications
- Co-authorship with Aeton Salas. (2023). Economic analysis of retroactive discounts from the perspective of free competition. In: Competence Center (CECO).
- Mimeo. Gabriela López and Nicole Martens (2021). Desafíos de la agencia de competencia peruana en la era digital. En el libro: Diez años de vigencia de la Ley Orgánica de Regulación y Control del Poder de Mercado Universidad San Francisco de Quito.
- Co-author. (2020). Perspectiva económica del entendimiento y la estimación del daño en casos de concertación de precios. Pendiente de publicación por la revista Derecho & Sociedad.
- Gabriela López and Andrea Cadenas. (2016). Haciendo de lo bueno algo mejor: Análisis de Impacto Regulatorio del Régimen de Incentivos en el Ámbito de la Fiscalización Ambiental. Revista Themis: Edición 70.
- Gabriela López. (2015). La aplicación de incentivos en la fiscalización ambiental. Documento de Trabajo publicado por el Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental-OEFA.
- Co-author. (2013). Metodología de Cálculo de Multas como Instrumento de la Fiscalización Ambiental. En: El nuevo enfoque de la fiscalización ambiental. Organismo de Evaluación y Fiscalización Ambiental-OEFA. “¿Aires de controles de precios?: la receta más antigua y la de peores efectos”.