Marcello Clarich is a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer based in Rome and is head of the administrative and regulatory law sector. He has been a member of a various government commissions (at the Office of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of the Economy, the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministry of Communications and the Department for Public Works) on public utilities, privatisations, administrative reforms, deregulation and bidding procedures for public works.

An administrative law professor since 1990, he has been teaching at the LUISS ‘Guido Carli’ University in Rome since 1999, was a Visiting Professor at the University of Frankfurt and has an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. He is the author of monographs and has published many articles on administrative procedure, anti-trust, privatisation, independent administrative authorities, credit rules, administrative reform, and electronic communication. He speaks English fluently and has some knowledge of French and German.