Dario Oliveira Neto
Senior Scholar, Competition Policy
Dario Oliveira Neto serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.
Before joining ICLE, he was director of the Latin America Competition Advocacy Program at the Global Antitrust Institute, where he led regional programming, partnerships, and competition-advocacy initiatives.
Earlier, Oliveira Neto held a series of senior advisory roles at Brazil’s competition authority, the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica. He served as head of the Technical Advisory Unit to the Office of the President, after previously advising the Office of the President and the Office of the General Superintendent. He began his tenure at CADE as a technical assistant and graduate intern.
He has earned several academic distinctions, including graduating summa cum laude in law and finishing first in his class in economics.
Oliveira Neto holds an LL.M. in international business and economic law from Georgetown University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in commercial law at the University of São Paulo. He also earned a master’s in development economics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and two bachelor’s degrees from Brazilian universities. In addition, he completed graduate certificates in antitrust law and business law.
