The recently-appointed head of the Argentine competition authority is faced with a domestic economy in which concentration appears to be growing apace. Here he explains to Global Competition Review why he is optimistic about antitrust enforcement in this once largely state-run economy.

At the Fordham conference, Argentina’s record on the development of competition policy came under fire (see Conference Report, page 13). But when Sebastian O’Meara spoke in Buenos Aires to the new head of Argentina’s National Commission for the Defence of Competition, he found him in no mood to take the criticism lying down.