Panayiotis Agisilaou

Dr. Panayiotis Agisilaou is the founder and managing director of Trojan Economics a consulting firm in Cyprus specialising in the economcs of competition law, state aid and market regulation.

He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Open University of Cyprus.

He has extensive consulting experience in advising companies in all fields of competition economics, with particular expertise in the application of quantitative techniques to complex antitrust and merger issues. He has advised on competition matters and given expert evidence on almost all high-profile antitrust and merger cases (Phase I and Phase II), covering a wide range of sectors, before the Commission for the Protection of Competition in Cyprus. He has also testified as an expert witness in court and arbitration proceedings involving competition issues in Cyprus.

Panayiotis has advised clients on a variety of regulatory issues across a range of network industries, such as telecommunications, energy and water, and in matters relating to state aid. He has extensive experience in providing competition compliance risk assessment and training. He also has experience in providing distilled expert advice on competition-related commercial litigation in Cyprus.

Prior to founding Trojan Economics, he has acted as an Economic Advisor to the Chairman of the Commission for the Protection of Competition in Cyprus.

Panayiotis holds a PhD in Economics from the University of East Anglia, an MA in Economics for Competition Law from King’s College London, an MSc in Economics from University College London (with Distinction) and a BSc in Economics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ranked first).

Panagiotis has published extensively on competition policy and regulation in Cyprus and the European Union and is a co-author of “Competition Policy in Cyprus: 1989-2009” published by Nomiki Vivliothiki, Athens. He is also an author at Concurrences and a case report contributor to Oxford Competition Law. He speaks at conferences and provides economics training for judges.

He has been recommended and recognized in Who’s Who Legal 2020-2023 as a leading competition economics expert. In addition, he is the exclusive recipient of the Lexology Client Choice Award for 2021 and 2022 for Competition Economics in Cyprus.