David Henriques

Dr David Henriques is a consultant competition economist based in RBB’s London office. Prior to joining RBB in 2020, he was an economist at Ofcom, having advised on several competition and regulatory matters for nearly eight years. David has published articles at the London School of Economics, the European Central Bank, Ofcom and in internationally peer-reviewed journals, such as: Information Economics and Policy; the Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade; Review of Network Economics; and Telecommunications Policy. Sources praise his ability to create a “novel and interest approach to addressing the competition issues associated with sports rights auctions”.

David has provided economic advice to clients and their legal advisors across a wide range of sectors and jurisdictions on various issues arising under competition law and related commercial litigation and disputes. This experience includes mergers and acquisitions, coordination cases, regulatory issues, State aid and damage claims.

His sectoral experience covers telecoms, media, electronic payments, banking, security services, healthcare, consumer goods, ports, and tile coatings.

David has specialist expertise in auction design and price control design. For example, he advised on the UK 5G auction that concluded in 2018 with £1.4 bn of revenue, and on the design of access price controls for broadband services in the UK.

David holds both a BSc and a PhD in Economics from Nova School of Business and Economics (Lisbon, Portugal). He was a PhD Visiting Scholar at New York University – Stern School of Business (NY, US) between 2009 and 2011, while doing his PhD research. David was also a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (London, UK) between 2016 and 2020.

He lectured undergraduate and graduate level courses on Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Analysis of Industry and Competition, and Competitive Strategy at Nova SBE.

David works both in English and Portuguese.