Alessio Aresu is a case handler (administrator) at the Directorate General for Competition of the European Commission, Cartel unit G2. Previously, Alessio Aresu was an Associate General Counsel - Competition and Regulatory at Facebook, based in the Brussels office. Alessio has many years of experience handling antitrust matters in the technology space, abuse of dominance, merger control and cartel investigations. While in private practice, he was selected as a "Future Leader" in competition law by Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who Legal in 2018 and 2019. Previously, Alessio Aresu was a counsel at O’Melveny & Myers, and before that an associate at Latham & Watkins and an Academic Assistant in the Legal Studies Department of the College of Europe, responsible for the specialization in European Law and Economic Analysis (ELEA). Alessio graduated with a BSc and MSc in law from Bocconi University, Milan, and obtained an LL.M. from the College of Europe, Bruges (European Law and Economic Analysis specialization), where he was awarded a Rafael Sanz Rodriguez memorial prize for the best thesis in the Legal Studies Department.