Alena Kozakova

Alena Kozakova is a Director in the London office. Her focus is competition and economic regulation economics established in public authorities and consulting.

Alena has extensive experience in applied microeconomics, particularly industrial organisation. She has seen a broad variety of cases across industries, with particular emphasis on retail, telecoms, utilities and platform competition. Furthermore, Alena’s focus is on applying competition economics in industries with no history in market organisation such as healthcare, public service broadcasting and education, and on applying regulatory microeconomics and finance.

Prior to joining E.CA, Alena was the Chief Economist of the UK water regulator, Ofwat. She also worked for both predecessors of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (Office of Fair Trading and the Competition Commission) and for DG Competition within the European Commission. Formerly, Alena also worked for Frontier Economics.

Alena holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Economics in Prague and from City University in London. Moreover, she holds degrees from the Institute d’études politiques de Paris and the École nationale d’administration.

In addition to her role at E.CA, Alena is a non-executive director on the board of the UK’s Gas and Electricity Markets Authority.

A detailed CV can be downloaded here.