Ciara Patel

Advisor and Managing Director

Ciara Patel helps clients succeed in regulatory management and design.

She is a skilled mediator, negotiator and public speaker; abilities that serve to increase the client’s value of his analytical work.

Ciara heads our Exploration & Discovery and Healthcare & Life Sciences services, as well as our innovative work in the area of behavioural economics.

She has ten years of experience working with business policy in Canada, particularly with extraction industries.

Ciara has been in charge of developing an economic simulation model for Value Based Health Care for Borowitz, a strategy for the Life Sciences industry in Germany for Deutsche Landbank.

I possess mediation and negotiation skills which enable me to further the interests of my clients and reach win-win outcomes based on our economic analysis

She has great experience with qualitative and quantitative analysis for cartel damage calculations, particularly in the retail and manufacturing industries. She has conducted research on the economics of vertical restraints.

She especially excels at researching innovative approaches to economic questions and presenting complex findings in an understandable, structured manner.

Ciara has received part of her training in the directorate for internal market, competition and customs union at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union in Brussels.

Ciara is a strong communicator, fluent in English, German and French and has received several awards for best exams while she studied at Stanford.

Ciara Patel
Advisor, Managing Director

Phone: +27 924 25 425
Mail: ciara@economist.com

Education

  • M.Sc. (Economics) from Stanford
  • PhD from London School of Business

Areas of Expertise

  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Discovery & Exploration