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Rebeca Escobar

Head - Studies Center of the Federal Telecommunications Institute

Working groupExpert Group on Compute & Climate
Stakeholder TypeGovernment
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Rebeca Escobar has been Head of the IFT’s Studies Center since August 2019. Her work career includes various positions at the Federal Competition Commission, where she served as General Director of Regulation and Privatization, General Director of International Affairs and Deputy General Director of Economic Studies, among others.
In 2013 and 2016 she was a candidate for Commissioner of the IFT and Federal Economic Competition Commission (COFECE, for its acronym in Spanish). She is an expert on competition, telecommunications and digital markets and has published articles in national and international journals. She has taught courses on economic competition and industrial organization at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).
She holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy (ITAM), a postgraduate degree in Business Administration from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from ITAM. She joined the IFT in 2015 as an Investigator in Economic Competition

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