ABOUT

Eliana Garcés Tolón is the Deputy Chief Economist in the Directorate General for Internal Market, Industry and Entrepreneurship in the European Commission. She is a former Member of the Cabinet of Vice President Joaquin Almunia, European Commissioner for Competition Policy and was previously a member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner for Consumer Affairs Meglena Kuneva. She has worked as a member of the Chief Economist Team in the Directorate General of Competition in the European Commission and in private economic consulting in the United States. Eliana holds a PhD in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.