Secretary General

Secretary General of the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato since 19^th December 2011.
Born on 21^st February 1966 in Rome, married with two children.

Councillor of Statesince February 2000.

Prior occupations
- Magistrate of the Regional Administrative Courts (T.A.R. – Tribunali Amministrativi Regionali), appointed to the Brescia T.A.R. (Feb. 1^st, 1998 to Feb. 2000);
- Magistrate of the Court of Audit, appointed to the Trento office (Dec. 29^th, 1997 to Feb. 1^st, 1998);
- Ordinary magistrate (Nov. 22^nd, 1991 to Dec. 29^th, 1997): judicial auditor at the Tribunal of Trento, then (1992-1995) Tribunal magistrate with judge functions at the Tribunal of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto (Messina), then (1995-1997) with judge functions at the Juvenile Court of Trento - served as the designated Judge for bankruptcy proceedings for two years, acquiring considerable experience in the sector;
- Official of the Ministry of the Interior (Oct. 25^th, 1989 to Nov. 22^nd, 1991).

Education
Law degree from the Sapienza University of Rome with marks of 110 summa cum laude (July, 1988).

Lecturer for university and post-graduate courses on administrative law and antitrust law; co-edited and contributed to legal trade journals, authored over 50 publications in the administrative law sector, including R. Chieppa, Studi di diritto amministrativo (Studies in administrative law); R. Chieppa – R. Giovagnoli, Manuale di diritto amministrativo (Guide to administrative law); R. Chieppa, Codice amministrativo commentato (Annotated administrative code), R. Chieppa, Il Codice del processo amministrativo – Commento a tutte le novità del giudizio amministrativo (The Administrative process code – Commentary on all new aspects of administrative judgment); R. Chieppa, Il processo amministrativo dopo il correttivo al Codice (The administrative process after correction of the Code), Milan, January 2012.

Collaborated with the Ministry of Regional Affairs and Local Autonomies as a member of the joint Committee on the laws for implementing the special Statute of the Region of Aosta Valley and as an expert on issues concerning the liberalization of public services and the reform of the consolidated law on local entities and issues related to mountainous areas. Member of the regulatory quality and simplification Unit established at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Speaker on antitrust law at numerous conferences, including: Le sanzioni delle autorità indipendenti (Sanctions by independent authorities), LUISS Rome, 2011; La regolazione dei mercati di settore tra autorità indipendenti nazionali e organismi europei (The regulation of sector markets between independent national authorities and European bodies), Università statale, Milan, 2011; L'evoluzione della giurisprudenza del Consiglio di Stato in materia antitrust (The evolution of State Council court decisions related to antitrust affairs), Competition lunch talk – Associazione antitrust italiana, June 2010, Il sindacato giurisdizionale sugli atti dell’Autorità dell’energia elettrica e il gas (Judicial review of acts by the Authority for Electricity and Gas), AEEG, Milan, June 2008; Sanzioni e risarcimento del danno in materia antitrust (Sanctions and compensation in antitrust matters), AGCM, Rome, June 2008; Colloquio italo spagnolo sugli atti delle autorità indipendenti (Italo-Spanish colloquium on the acts of independent authorities), Rome, State Council, 2007; Le sanzioni antitrust (Antitrust sanctions), AGCM, Rome, 2006; Imparzialità e indipendenza delle Authorities nelle recenti dinamiche istituzionali e amministrative (The impartiality and independence of Authorities in recent institutional and administrative dynamics), Rome – State Council, December 2005; Antitrust between EC Law and National Law, Treviso, May 2004; La riforma del diritto comunitario della concorrenza (The reform of Community laws on competition), Rome, AIGE, March 2003.

Collaborated with the “PHARE Twinning Project on competition,” financed by the European Commission to address Romania's entry into the European Union, several classes on antitrust law held in Bucharest.

Author of the following publications on independent administrative Authorities and the Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato: (i)“Chieppa – Cirillo, Autorità amministrative indipendenti” (Independent administrative authorities) (volume of the Administrative law treatise), Padova, 2011; (ii) Il sindacato giurisdizionale sugli atti delle autorità indipendenti in Italia, (The judicial review of acts by independent authorities in Italy and) in L'amministrazione europea: caratteri, accountability e sindacato giurisdizionale (European administration: character, accountability and judicial review), Padova, 2009; (iii) Il differente controllo del Giudice amministrativo sulle attivita` di regolazione e giustiziali delle Autorita` amministrative indipendenti (The different control of the administrative Judge over the regulatory and judicial activities of independent administrative Authorities), in AAVV, Il controllo del giudice amministrativo sulla discrezionalità tecnica e, in particolare, sugli atti delle autorità indipendenti. (The control of the administrative judge over technical discretionality and the acts of independent authorities, in particular) 7° Colloquio italiano-spagnolo (7^th Italo-Spanish colloquium), Milan, 2009; (iv) Tipologie procedimentali e contraddittorio davanti alle Autorità indipendenti (Types of proceedings and cross-examinations before independent Authorities), in AA.VV., Imparzialità e indipendenza delle Authorities nelle recenti dinamiche istituzionali e amministrative, (The impartiality and independence of Authorities in recent institutional and administrative dynamics) Milan 2006; (v) “Jurisdictional control over the decision of the antitrust authorities” in Antitrust between EC Law and National Law, Giuffrè – Bruylant, 2005; (vi)Potere economico e Autorità indipendenti: funzioni neutrali e sindacato del giudice amministrativo, (Economic power and independent Authorities: neutral functions and review of the administrative judge) in Riv. Sc. Sup. econ e fin., 2005, no. 7; (vii) La tutela giurisdizionale dei controinteressati rispetto ai provvedimenti di archiviazione e di autorizzazione dell’Autorità antitrust, (Jurisdictional protection of nominal opponents in relation to archiving and authorization measures of the antitrust Authority) in Concorrenza e mercato, no. 12/2004; (viii) Il controllo giurisdizionale sugli atti delle Autorità antitrust, (Jurisdictional control over acts of the Antitrust Authority) in Dir. proc. amm., no. 4/2004; (ix) Il ruolo dei giudici nazionali nell’applicazione decentrata del diritto comunitario della concorrenza, (The role of national judges in the decentralized application of Community laws on competition) in Il Consiglio di Stato, no. 5-6/2003; (x) L’accesso agli atti delle Autorità indipendenti, (Access to the acts of independent Authorities) in www.lexfor.it, 2002.