Oscar Guinea
Email: oscar.guinea@ecipe.org
Mobile: +34 667 422 803
Areas of Expertise: European Union EU Single Market Digital Economy Services

Oscar Guinea is a Senior Economist at ECIPE.
Oscar is the author of several studies in the field of international trade, digital markets, industrial policy, and healthcare. He contributes regularly to debates on EU trade policy in newspaper articles and seminars. His research interests include globalization, technological change, economic dependencies, and European relations with the Mercosur countries. Oscar is the author of a regular column in the Spanish newspaper El País where he writes about EU trade and economic policy.
He joined ECIPE in 2018 having worked as an Economic Adviser at the Scottish Government in the Office of the Chief Economic Adviser. Prior to that, he worked for the European Commission (DG ENER) as a national expert on energy policy. Oscar has experience appraising and assessing regulation as a government economist and private consultant.
Oscar holds a MA in European Economics from the College of Europe and a MSc in Development Economics from the University of Sussex. He graduated in Economics from the University Autonoma of Madrid and was an international student in the University of Chile and the University of Macedonia.
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Strategic Autonomy and the Competitiveness of Europe’s Innovative Pharmaceutical Sector: A Wake-up Call
It is high time for Europe to break its relative decline in the pharmaceutical sector. Europe used to be the preeminent region in the world for Research and Development and innovation in the sector – being the location for a majority of R&D and the development of new medicines. However, its competitiveness has been going down for several decades – and, in more recent time, the pace of the decline is now accelerating. Europe is not just outpaced by the...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
Reforming Standard Essential Patents: Trade, Specialisation, and International Jurisprudence
The European Commission is considering a radical overhaul of the system governing Standard Essential Patents (SEPs). A leaked proposal suggests that the Commission wants to take control over the registration of SEPs, take efforts to regulate their essentiality, and intervene in negotiations over royalty rates if parties do not come to an agreement. The underlying assumption is that such a system will benefit SEP implementers and the European economy, and that the...
ECIPE Occasional Papers
In Support of Market-Driven Standards
The EU published its new Standardisation Strategy in 2022. The strategy contains some good ideas to improve the way European standards are set. However, in its attempt to gain more control over technical standards, the EU risks killing the goose that lays the golden egg. The primary motivation behind the strategy is the belief that the process governing the way CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI – the three European Standardisation Organisations – take decisions over...
ECIPE Policy Briefs
The Economic Dividend of Competitiveness
In a world of technological and economic rivalry, the EU must devote increased attention to its competitiveness. Higher levels of competitiveness will help the EU build a more prosperous economy which will in turn produce innovation and resources to address the great challenges of our time. ECIPE published a study presenting a competitiveness compass with concrete policy recommendations that will improve EU’s competitiveness. These policy recommendations,...
Media Mention
Eyes on the prize: Lula’s outbursts won’t deter EU from chasing Mercosur deal
Oscar Guinea comments in Politico about the impact of Brazilian President position on Ukraine on the EU-Mercosur Association...
Media Mention
Everyone pays in Putin’s war
Oscar Guinea comments in the Mexican newspaper, El Universal, about the economic effects of Russian war in Ukraine (in Spanish and behind the...
Media Mention
The European Parliament endorse the new anti-coercion instrument
Oscar Guinea comments in Euractiv about the European Parliament endorsement of the new anti-coercion...
Media Mention
EU One Step Closer to Finalizing Another Tool to Counter Chinese Subsidies
Oscar Guinea comments in the China Trade Monitor the effects of the EU Foreign Subsidy Regulation on Chinese companies (behind the...
Article
The Black Legend of the Digital Economy
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in El País debunking the myth of Europe's digital economy as dependent and weak (in Spanish and behind the...
Article
Europe Against the Machine
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in the Spanish newspaper El País about the upcoming EU regulation on artificial intelligence (in Spanish and...
Article
The winning EU that we need
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in El País about the need for a renewed focus on competitiveness in EU policymaking (in Spanish and behind the...
Article
Spain needs an open migration policy
Oscar Guinea writes an opinion piece in the Spanish newspaper El País in which he argues in favour of the new migration law and stresses the...
Book or Paper
Why the D9+ Group should provide stronger leadership in European digital policy
Oscar Guinea and Philipp Lamprecht published a blog post about EU digital competitiveness and the role for the D9+ countries for the Real Instituto...
Book or Paper
Open Strategic Autonomy: new tools for a geopolitical world
Oscar Guinea writes a chapter on the latest issue of "Información Comercial Española" published by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and...
Book or Paper
Exporting Distortions: Chinese Industrial Policy and the European Response
Oscar Guinea writes a chapter on China industrial policy and the European response on CIDOB's monography China's geoeconomic strategy and its...
Book or Paper
The DMA, the DSA and the new AI regulation: Mapping the economic consequences of new digital regulations in Central and Eastern Europe
Oscar Guinea co-authors a study exploring the impacts of the EU DMA, DSA, and AI regulation in Central and Eastern...
Speech or Presentation
In Support of Market Driven Standards
Oscar Guinea presents his research on the EU New Standardisation Strategy at...
Speech or Presentation
EU Trade Dependencies
Oscar Guinea presents his research on EU trade dependencies to the European Chemical Industry...
Speech or Presentation