MARGHERITA CORINA

margheritacorina@gmail.com, (+52) 1 55-3416-4194, (+1) 619-788-3068, Twitter: @Maghecorina

EDUCATION

May 2014

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, School of International and Public Affairs Master of Public Administration in Economic Policy Management.

New York, USA

April 2012

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Boston, USA

Executive Program in Strategic Management of Regulatory and Enforcement Agencies.

April 2010

INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO

Executive Program in Law of Economic Competition

Mexico City, Mexico

May 2008

INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO

Master of Arts in Public Policy

Mexico City, Mexico

Dissertation: “Auction Theory for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System license sale in Italy and England”.

Oct 2006 UNIVERSITÁ COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI Milan, Italy

Master of Science in Economics and Social Sciences Dissertation: “Non-equilibrium strategic models to explain some regularities in auction games”.

June 2004 UNIVERSITÁ COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI Milan, Italy

Bachelor of Science in Economics and Social Sciences

Dissertation: “Psychological games: beliefs-dependent payoffs in strategic environments”.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb 2015 AGON Economía Derecho Estrategia

Consultant

Consulting companies on competition issues to help them comply with Mexican’s competition regulation.

Assisted Bimbo, Google and the Association of Banks of Mexico with the new procedures of the Mexican

competition law to comply with essential facilities, barriers to competition and predatory pricing.

Assisted the Energy Regulatory Commission to implement a new regulation about vertical integration in gas

stations to boost competition in the gasoline market.

Worked in compliance for the Association of Banks of Mexico.

Assisted Office Depot and Radio Shack, Halliburton and Baker Hughes, and Femsa to have the authorization

of the Federal Competition Economic Commission to merge in 2015.

Sept 2014- FEDERAL COMMISSION ECONOMIC COMPETITION

Jan 2015 Director of Regulated Markets

Investigation and identification of relevant market, existence of substantial power, identification of essential

facilities and barriers to competition in transportation, energy and financial sectors.

Propose actions to eliminate barriers to competition in transportation, energy and financial sectors.

July 2014- WORLD BANK

Sept 2014 Information and Communication Technology

Consultant

Analysis of key challenges and opportunities facing countries in the South Caucasus related to increasing ICT-enabled employment.

Develop policy principles and recommendations for discussion with World Bank team members on how other developing countries could encourage synergies.

April 2012- FEDERAL COMMISSION FOR REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT Mexico City, Mexico Dec 2012 Ministry of Economy

Head of Economic Intelligence Unit

Implemented Standard Cost Model for the evaluation of opportunity costs for entrepreneurs, applied to all

of the formalities and procedures at the federal level.

Jan 2007- UNIVERSITÁ COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI Aug 2007 Competitivity Analysis Department

Researcher

Sept 2006- INA Assitalia Jan 2007 Financial Consultant

Designed and coordinated the Program to Reduce Administrative Burdens, which will result in a savings of

1.2% of Mexico’s GDP and a projection of a 2.2% of GDP added growth for the country by the year 2025.

Trained in better regulation a total of 13,320 regulatory agencies, officials at the Federal, State and

Municipal level, as well as representatives of 21 countries, such as Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada,

Colombia, Spain, United States, France, Hungary, Italy, Peru, Switzerland and Ukraine.

Monitored economic activity, external sector and financial markets in different countries and sent the

information to over 16,000 people daily.

Proposed actions to improve implementation of public policy for improving specific regulatory frameworks.

Feb 2010- FEDERAL COMMISSION FOR REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT Mexico City, Mexico

March 2012 Ministry of Economy

Director of Telecommunication and Transportation Regulation

Functioned as the senior economist in charge of the Cost-Benefit analysis for the implementation of draft

regulations on telecommunication and transportation sectors.

Designed the new Regulatory Improvement Assessment, implemented in 2010, making the Federal

Commission for Regulatory Improvement the 5th agency of its kind with a better institutional design at the

OECD level.

Negotiated the policy on airport slot allocation and the restructure of the regulatory framework, which

seeks to improve the competitiveness of this sector and the quality of services provided to the population,

entrepreneurs and tourists.

Oct 2008- FEDERAL COMMISSION FOR REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT Mexico City, Mexico Feb 2010 Ministry of Economy

Deputy Director

Promoted regulatory reform in social and environmental sectors, particularly the ecological equilibrium and environmental protection for self-regulation and environmental audits, and the rules for the detention facilities of the National Institute of Migration, and the Digital Signature Act.

May 2008- FEDERAL COMMISSION FOR REGULATORY IMPROVEMENT Mexico City, Mexico Oct 2008 Ministry of Economy

Chief of Department

Reviewed the Federal Register of Formalities and Services, the first register of its kind at the OECD level.

Milan, Italy

Researched auction mechanisms used to grant radio spectrum licenses for Universal Mobile

Telecommunications System license sale in Europe and United States.

Milan, Italy

Assisted on the design of risk premiums’ structures for a relevant national insurance company for the

development of better insurance products and policies.

Feb 2006- PETROLEOS MEXICANOS Mexico City, Mexico

June 2006 Internship

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Fluent in English, Spanish and Italian Proficient in Office, STATA and Matlab

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

“Institutional Strength of Economic Regulators in Mexico”, 2011, with Alfonso Carballo and Ignacio Camacho. Available in: http://www.cofemer.gob.mx/varios/adjuntos/13.10.2011/DIAGNÓSTICO%20REGULADORES%20ECONÓMICOS.PDF

Papers:

“Benefits Derived from the 2011-2012 Regulatory Burden Reduction Program”. Latin-Reg, 2012, with Alfonso Carballo. Available in: http://www.latin-reg.org/publicaciones/Benefits_Derived_from_the_2011-2012_Regulatory_Improvement_Program.pdf

“Implementation of the Standard Cost Model: Lessons and Experience from Mexico”. LATIN-REG, 2012, with Alfonso Carballo. Available in: http://www.latin-reg.org/publicaciones/Mexico_Standar_Cost_Model.pdf “Analysis of the Effect of Regulation on Spatial Competition of Gasoline Service Stations”, Latin-Reg, 2012, with Alfonso Carballo.

“Welfare impact derived from the elimination of the subsidy on the gasolines throw a computable general equilibrium”, Latin- Reg, 2012, with Kevin Altamirano and Alfonso Carballo.

“Welfare impact derived from the elimination of the gasoline subsidy through the Compensating Variation Methodology”, Latin-Reg, 2012, with Kevin Altamirano and Alfonso Carballo.

“Successful Regulatory Improvement Strategies: Mexican Case”, Latin-Reg, 2011, with Alfonso Carballo.

“Subnational Administrative Burden Measurement: The Case of Zacatecas’ Regulatory Improvement Strategy”, Latin-Reg, 2012, with Alfonso Carballo.

“Creating technical capacities for regulatory improvement: COFEMER/LATIN-REG Certification Courses”, Latin-Reg, 2012.

Certification Courses:

“Certification course on Regulation”, 12 readings and 4 Units, COFEMER-LATIN REG, 2012, with Alfonso Carballo.

“Certification course on Economic Regulation”, 12 readings and 4 Units, COFEMER-LATIN REG, 2012, with Kevin

Altamirano and Alfonso Carballo.

“Certification course on Regulatory Impact Evaluation: Methodologies and Applied Strategies based on cases studies”, 12

readings and 4 Units, COFEMER-LATIN REG, 2012, with Rafael Hernández and Alfonso Carballo.

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Ministry of Economy and OCDE Third annual conference of regulatory reform and competition as the basis of competitiveness Mexico City, Mexico, 2012

Training by Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Peru, Lima, 2012

Economic Perspectives Seminar 2011 “The Challenge of Economic Growth” Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) Mexico City, Mexico, 2011