Patricia is the Deputy Superintendent at the Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE), where she also worked as Deputy Chief Economist. She currently oversees CADE’s review of merger notifications and unilateral conduct/monopolization investigations. In addition, she coordinates the works undertaken by Brazil as co-chair of the Mergers Working Group at the International Competition Network (ICN). She also leads CADE’s Working Group on applying antitrust to the Digital Economy.