Bruno Soria

Dr. Soria is an Associate Director in NERA's Communications, Internet, and Media Practice, based in Madrid. He has extensive experience advising companies, trade associations, and public administrations throughout Europe and Latin America on economics, regulation, and strategy. Dr. Soria's work focuses on performing dynamic competition analyses; providing advice on public policies aimed at fostering competition, deployment, and universalization of networks and services; and achieving a level playing field in the Internet value chain.

Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Soria led the central services unit for regulation at Telefónica S.A. While at Telefónica he also provided economic analysis and studies on regulatory issues, tracked developments in regulatory and policy debates in the United States, and assessed strategic and investment opportunities worldwide.

Previously, Dr. Soria was a Project Leader at The Boston Consulting Group, where he provided strategic advice to European and Latin American clients in several industries, with special focus on telecommunications and Internet.

Dr. Soria is a guest professor at the University of Barcelona, where he lectures on Telecommunications Economics and Regulation in the Master's Degree program on Economics, Regulation and Competition in Public Services. He regularly presents his work at academic conferences and publishes in telecommunications books and peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of EuroCPR and a founding member of the Spanish Internet Governance Forum (IGF Spain).

Education

• Ph D Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (1994 — 1999)
• Master IE Business School (1990 — 1991)
• MSc Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1983 — 1989)