Dr. Debra Aron is the director of LECG's Evanston office and an adjunct associate professor at Northwestern University. At LECG Dr. Aron has been engaged in regulatory economics and policy matters, merger analyses, and antitrust analyses, with a specialty in the communications industries. For nearly 10 years before joining LECG, Dr. Aron was a member of the faculty at Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where she taught pricing strategy and economic theory to MBA and PhD students. In the regulatory arena, Dr. Aron has served as an expert witness in numerous matters relating to the appropriate regulatory posture regarding the development of competition in local telecommunications markets, the development of competition and investment in broadband markets, the pricing of local telephone service, interconnection, determination of forward looking costs under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, limitations of liability, and Universal Service. Dr. Aron's experience also includes class certification issues, analysis of mergers, and competitive issues in domestic and international communications markets including wireless telephony and the pay television industry. One of her primary fields of consulting expertise is pricing strategy, and she has conducted a number of price restructuring projects in cellular telephone markets. Dr. Aron has conducted antitrust analyses in a number of industries, including the food industry and the market for professional designations and certification. Dr. Aron holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago, and is a former national fellow of the Hoover Institution, and faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. |