Zita Vasas

Vice President

London

Zita Vasas is a Vice President at Compass Lexecon, based in London.

She has over fifteen years of experience as a competition economist, including working in the competition team of a sectoral regulator (the Financial Conduct Authority, UK) and at a national competition authority (Hungary). She has been involved in cases in a wide range of sectors (e.g., digital and tech markets, retail financial products, audiovisual media, FMCG, healthcare, telecommunications, maritime transport), policy areas (market investigations, abuse of dominance cases, mergers, state aid and policy advice) and jurisdictions (e.g., EU, UK, Australia, South Africa, Oman and India). Zita has been recognised as a Future Leader in the 2025 Lexology Index for Competition Economists.

Zita completed her PhD in 2022 on the role of consumer search in competition policy at the University of East Anglia. She holds an MSc in Competition and Market Regulation from the Barcelona School of Economics and an MSc in Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest. While working at the FCA, she gained experience in applying behavioural economics and consumer policy. Her recent research interests concern the intersection of behavioural economics and digital platform regulation. She has published in the Behavioural Public Policy, the Journal of European Competition Law & Practice and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.


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    Education

    • DPhil in Management (Research), Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia
    • MSc in Competition and Market Regulation, Barcelona School of Economics
    • MSc in Economics, Corvinus University of Budapest

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