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Jorge Fantuzzi is a partner and co-founder of FK Economics, where he leads the firm’s practice in Latin America, based in Chile.
Mr. Fantuzzi specializes in the economic fields of Industrial Organization and Microeconometrics, with a particular focus on economic damage estimation in international arbitration and competition law cases.
He has extensive experience in preparing economic reports presented before competition authorities, civil courts, and arbitration tribunals. He has also served as an expert witness in various proceedings and jurisdictions. His work has earned him recognition as a Thought Leader in the Quantum of Damages category by Lexology.
Some of the industries in which he has provided economic expertise include electricity generation, airlines, banking, supermarkets, pharmaceuticals, beverages, television content production, and dairy, among others.
Additionally, Mr. Fantuzzi has been a professor of Introduction to Economics and Productivity Policies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, as well as a professor of Industrial Organization at both Universidad de los Andes and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.
Mr. Fantuzzi holds a degree in Business and Economics (with a specialization in Economics) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, a Master’s in Economics (with a specialization in Industrial Organization) from the same institution, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.
Education
- Master in Public Policy, University of Chicago.
- Master in Economics with a major in Industrial
Organization, Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Chile. - Business and Economics with a major in
Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile.
Awards and Recognition
- Lexology 2025 – Global Elite Thought Leader, Client Choice category.
- Lexology 2025 – Thought Leader, Competition category.
- Lexology 2025 – Recommended Consulting Experts, Competition Economists, Financial Advisory and Valuation, and Quantum of Damages categories.
- Lexology 2025 – Recommended, Arbitration category.
- Fellow for the Hoover IP Summer Teaching Institute on the Economics and Politics of Regulation, 2017.
- Fellow of Becas Chile, 2014.
- 100 Young Leaders of Saturday Magazine, 2011.
- Free Society Award for the best graduate thesis of the year, 2008.
Publications
Editor of the book “Ingreso Ético Familiar: innovando en la lucha contra la pobreza”, 2013.
Editor of the book “In search of lost productivity”, 2018.
Author of the book “Determinación del Lucro Cesante: Una Mirada Económica” (Thomson Reuters, 2020), together with M. Victoria Edwards.
Actions for damages based on anticompetitive conduct (CeCo UAI, 2020), together with M. Victoria Edwards and José Miguel Gana.
Loss of chance and free competition (CeCo UAI, 2022), with Antonia Sanders.
Modernización en el acceso y uso de datos públicos en Chile, with Francisco Larraín.
Chapter of the book Un Estado para la Ciudadanía. Studies for its modernization. Editors: Isabel Aninat S. and Slaven Razmilic B. (CEP, 2018).
The Economic Effects of Constitutions, by T. Persson and G. Tabellini. A pertinent book. Revista Átomo N°6.
Metros siniestrados y preferencias en el plebiscito 2020, with Sebastián Aravena and Emily Jacob. In Revista de Estudios Públicos (CEP).
Policy evaluation report. The impact of instantaneous depreciation and ultra-accelerated depreciation. Together with Joaquín Fuenzalida B., Alberto Sasmay A. and Felipe Sepúlveda A. Report prepared for the Budget Office.
Informe de evaluación de política. El impacto de la depreciación instantánea y la depreciación utra-acelerada. With Joaquín Fuenzalida B., Alberto Sasmay A. and Felipe Sepúlveda A. Dirección de Presupuestos.
- Competencia imperfecta en el mercado laboral (CeCo UAI, 2023).
- Una mirada económica a los perjuicios del caso La Polar, in Jurisprudencia Critica III, Comentarios de sentencias, Hugo Cárdenas (editor), Rubicón Editores, 2023
- Estadísticas para libre competencia: Un breve manual para abogados, Jorge Fantuzzi y Santiago Matallana (CeCo UAI, 2024)
