Cani Fernández
President
Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia
Cani Fernández Vicién is president of Spain’s Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC), a position she has held since June 2020. She has also served since January 2021 as a member of the OECD Competition Committee Bureau.
From 1987 and 2020, she worked as a lawyer in private practice specializing in EU and competition law and was the first woman to be appointed a co-chair of the Antitrust Committee of the International Bar Association’s (IBA) Antitrust Commission. In the 1990s, she was a référendaire at the Court of Justice of the European Union. She also taught at Toulouse School of Economics, McGeorge University of the Pacific, Carlos III University, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, among others.
She graduated in law with merit from the University of Zaragoza and also obtained a special degree with great distinction in European law from the Free University of Brussels in 1987. She was awarded with the NATO Fellowship Program in 1986.
