He has more than twenty years of experience in competition and economic regulation matters. As President of the Federal Competition Commission (2004-2013), he participated in all merger, collusion and abuse of dominance cases resolved by the Commission, as well as in market studies and opinions issued by this authority to promote more efficient markets in a wide range of sectors.

He was Chairman of the International Competition Network, which brings together more than 130 competition agencies worldwide. Between 2001 and 2004, he was Mexico’s Ambassador to the WTO, where he played a leading role in the decision to initiate the Doha Round of negotiations and was the architect of the first result of this multilateral round of negotiations. Previously, he was chief negotiator of the free trade agreement between Mexico and the European Union in Brussels.

He is currently Co-Chair of the Compliance and Ethics Committee of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of the American Antitrust Institute, Fordham Conference on International Antitrust Law and Policy in New York and is currently a member of the Advisory Commission for Growth in the United Kingdom.