Antón Garcia
Senior Vice President
Madrid
"Having worked for many years with multiple advisors and consultants, working with Antón was one of the best experiences in my professional career." (2024)
Anton Garcia is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon and heads its energy practice in Spain.
Anton is an economist with an academic training in industrial organization with close to 15 years of experience in applying economic analysis to regulation and competition issues, with a special focus on the energy sector. At Compass Lexecon Anton has been involved in a number international arbitration cases dealing both with commercial and investment arbitration in the electricity and gas sectors. Anton has testified as economic expert under both ICSID and PCA arbitrations as well as in front on national tribunals. Anton has also presented expert reports on competition policy matters before the Spanish Competition Authority and the European Commission.
Prior to joining Compass Lexecon Anton was a Director at the Economic Bureau of the Spanish Prime Minister where he lead a team of economists responsible for advising the PM on a wide range of sectoral policies, including Energy and Climate Change, Telecommunications and Technology, and Transport. Anton has also been an independent consultant to the Spanish electricity regulator.
He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.
"He was very calm before the court and generates huge confidence." (2025)
"An outstanding (and unusual) combination of a robust final result, and a great learning and rethinking experience in the development of the final report." (2024)
"He is great, extremely thorough and highly effective." (2025)
"Clients need understanding, scientific approaches to find a solution, clear results and feasibility of recommendations and he always delivers." (2025)
"Solid technical background, team leadership, results orientation, quick connection with clients' needs." (2025)
"Very good from a technical standpoint, he gets to the point in Court clearly and concisely." (2024)
"Anton demonstrates not only outstanding mastership of his matters of expertise, but also an impressive ability to learn quickly about the specificities of our activity and get very quickly to the fundamental key." (2024)
"I was impressed by his high professionalism, how quickly he understands what you need and how you need it. Also his focused and pragmatic approach to the each topic and his capacity to make things easy for any court to understand." (2024)
"Thorough, thoughtful and concise, he has the ability to explain complex market dynamics for any audience." (2023)
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Education
- PhD in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- MSc in Industrial Organisation, Universidad Carlos III
- BA in Economics, Cum Laude with Honors, University of Maryland
- BS in Computer Science, Cum Laude, University of Maryland