Francisco Marcos
Professor of Business Law
IE University Law School
Francisco Marcos is professor of business law at IE Law School in Madrid and an academic affiliate of the International Center for Law & Economics.
His research focuses on competition law, economic regulation, and the economic analysis of law. He has advised governments, firms, and international organizations on antitrust and market-regulation issues.
Marcos has served as academic consultant at CCS Abogados. He previously was client and users’ ombudsman at SGAE, Spain’s primary copyright-collecting society, and earlier general director of competition policy at the Regional Antitrust Authority in Madrid. Before entering public service, he worked as an independent consultant for the World Bank, the European Commission, the Asian Development Bank, and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration, and practiced law with PriceWaterhouse.
In academia, he previously taught at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, and Universidad de Cantabria, and served as a visiting professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Earlier in his career, he worked as a research assistant at Harvard Law School and at the University of California, Berkeley.
He received the Avvocato Mario Jacchia Award from the University of Bologna for the best doctoral thesis in commercial law. His doctoral dissertation was later published as “Las ‘Depositary Receipts’: La Negociación Cruzada de Valores en los Mercados Extranjeros” (“Depositary Receipts: Cross-Trading of Securities in Foreign Markets”).
Marcos earned a J.D.-equivalent law degree from the Universidad de Oviedo, an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in law from the University of Bologna.
