Fernando Coloma Ríos

"The quality of his work is impressive." - Lexology Index 2024

Fernando Coloma Ríos is Senior Vice President and Head of Compass Lexecon Chile*, based in Santiago.

Prior to joining Compass Lexecon, Fernando worked for six years in the Chilean Competition Authority (Fiscalía Nacional Económica), where he was Chief Economist and Acting Head of the Merger Division. In this role, he led the economic team during the introduction of the new system of mandatory notification of mergers in June 2017.

Fernando has led teams in dozens of high-profile, in-depth merger investigations in a variety of industries, with close involvement at the fact-finding, analysis, and decision-making stages. He defended the Fiscalía Nacional Económica in the Chilean Competition Tribunal (Tribunal de Defensa de la Libre Competencia) in the context of significant cases. He was also the author of the report used to set the merger notification thresholds in 2016.

In private practice, Fernando has advised companies both in Chile and abroad. Fernando is head of the Compass Lexecon Affiliate Network office in Santiago, which is the first international economic consultancy office established in Chile.

Fernando has been an active lecturer in the field of economics and industrial organization at the Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad de Chile and Universidad de los Andes. He is currently a lecturer of the Competition Policy Diploma of Universidad Católica de Chile.

Fernando is recognised as a Global Elite Thought Leader in the Competition Economists category by Lexology Index. In 2022, he also won the Competition Economist award for Chile by Client Choice.

Fernando holds an M.Sc. in Economics and Management from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in Economics, a Major in Industrial Organization from Universidad Católica de Chile, and a B.A. in Business and Economics from the same university.

"He is the best in the Chilean competition field" - Lexology Index 2025

"His knowledge of competition law and economic theories is optimal" - Lexology Index 2024

"He is intelligent, efficient and knows how to communicate complex ideas in simple terms to different types of audiences"- Lexology Index 2024

"Fernando produces excellent work and is very responsive" - Lexology Index 2025

"He is strategic, professional, sophisticated and hardworking" - Lexology Index 2025

"He has in-depth economic knowledge and the ability to use it and apply it in cases" - Lexology Index 2024

"He is an excellent economist" - Lexology Index 2025

"Fernando understands perfectly the dynamics of the cases, their complexities, and the particularities of the markets involved" - Lexology Index 2024

"He has a great deal of experience" - Lexology Index 2024

"He is highly technical and possesses profound knowledge, coupled with rapid response times" - Lexology Index 2024

*Compass Lexecon Chile is not owned by Compass Lexecon LLC or any of Compass Lexecon’s affiliated entities and is solely responsible for its acts and omissions.