Dario Oliveira Neto
Dario Oliveira Neto serves as a senior scholar of competition policy at the International Center for Law & Economics.
Before joining ICLE, he was director of the Latin America Competition Advocacy Program at the Global Antitrust Institute, where he led regional programming, partnerships, and competition-advocacy initiatives.
Earlier, Oliveira Neto held a series of senior advisory roles at Brazil’s competition authority, the Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica. He served as head of the Technical Advisory Unit to the Office of the President, after previously advising the Office of the President and the Office of the General Superintendent. He began his tenure at CADE as a technical assistant and graduate intern.
He has earned several academic distinctions, including graduating summa cum laude in law and finishing first in his class in economics.
Oliveira Neto holds an LL.M. in international business and economic law from Georgetown University. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in commercial law at the University of São Paulo. He also earned a master’s in development economics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul and two bachelor’s degrees from Brazilian universities. In addition, he completed graduate certificates in antitrust law and business law.
Dario Oliveira Neto
Jul 22, 2025
Brazil is broadly expected to move forward in the very near future with plans to adopt ex-ante competition regulations to govern digital platforms. Indeed, in the wake of a public consultation launched by the Ministry of Finance in early 2024, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the administration have spent much of the past ... Lessons from the UK for Brazil’s Digital Market Strategy
Dario Oliveira Neto
Mar 12, 2025
A popular narrative has emerged in Brazil in recent years about the “genuine consensus” supporting the need for more stringent regulation of digital markets. This narrative has been fueled by a growing number of cases of alleged anticompetitive conduct by so-called “global mega-corporations,” including the Mercado Livre/Apple case and the more recent Meta/Apple case. The ... Is Brazil’s Digital Markets Proposal Based on Genuine Consensus or Unproven Narrative?
