Ania Thiemann is a highly experienced Economist and Competition Expert within the Competition Division of the OECD’s Directorate of Financial and Enterprise Affairs. She has extensive knowledge of competition and consumer matters in digital markets, and in the field of regulatory impact assessment and in other areas such as networks, utilities and occupational licensing. She conducts research on the digital economy and digital disruption, and the regulation of digital markets. She has managed several flagship projects for the OECD, such as the 2020-22 Competition assessment of ports and civil aviation in Brazil, or the 2019-2020 competition impact assessment project with the Government of Iceland, evaluating competition barriers in tourism and construction (Competition Assessment Review). Ania also supports the work of the OECD Competition Committee, organising roundtables and drafting background papers, especially on the topic of the digital economy, Big Data and FinTech.

Between 2014 and 2018, Ania was Head of Global Relations for the OECD Competition Division, in charge of outreach activities and the execution of the global relations strategy. She has also managed the OECD Competition Committee’s Working Party 2 on Regulation and Competition. In 2022-23, Ania took time away from competition to work in the Country Studies Branch of the Economics Department of the OECD, notably to reconnect with wider topics in macroeconomic analysis such as drivers of long-term growth and sustainability. This was also an opportunity to her experience of industrial organisation and micro foundations to country analysis. On the Egypt/Saudi Arabia Desk, she co-authored and edited the first-ever OECD Economic Survey of Egypt, which was published in February 2024.

Prior to joining the OECD, Ania was Senior Economist/Editor at the Country Analysis Division at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) in London, covering the Middle East, and Product Head of EIU’s Country Forecast Services, in charge of the Business Environment Rankings developed by the EIU. She holds an MSc (econ) from the London School of Economics and an MPhil in International Relations from the Sorbonne (Paris I), as well as an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College at the University of London, specializing in industrial organization and economic growth.