Mario A. Zúñiga

Senior Scholar, Competition Policy

Mario Zúñiga serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.

He is also a professor of economic analysis of law at the University of Lima and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a nongovernmental advisor for Peru at the International Competition Network.

Before joining ICLE, Zúñiga was a senior manager at EY and earlier a public-affairs manager at Alicorp. He previously served as a commissioner of Peru’s Commission for the Defense of Free Competition (INDECOPI) and as an advisor in the Cabinet of Advisors of the Peruvian Ministry of Economy and Finance.

Earlier in his career, he was vice president of Taxpayers for Respect and a researcher and senior researcher at the Institute for Liberty and Democracy. He also practiced law as an associate at Estudio Echecopar and began his career as a legal assistant at INDECOPI and Andersen Legal/Ernst & Young.

He earned a J.D. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and an LL.M. in regulation and public policy from The George Washington University Law School.