Nitika Bagaria

Nitika is a Senior Principal in the London office. Nitika specialises in the application of economic modelling to advise clients on merger control, antitrust, and competition issues. Recent project experience includes the Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Cloud Computing market investigation, antitrust matters in adtech, Microsoft/Activision, and LSEG/Refinitiv.

Most recently, Nitika completed a secondment at the UK CMA. Before that, she spent almost a decade at Charles River Associates (CRA) consulting on several prominent mergers and abuse of dominance cases. She has worked with clients like the European Commission, the CMA, as well as other national competition authorities across the EMEA region. Her experience covers a wide range of industries including adtech, cloud services, financial services, retail, aviation, telecommunications, media, pharma, and entertainment.

Prior to CRA, she completed her PhD in Economics from LSE and MA in Economics from Columbia University. She has published in the Competition Policy International, Economic Journal and has taught postgraduate courses at the London School of Economics and London Business School.

Education

• PhD in Economics from London School of Economics
• M.A. in Economics from Columbia University