Compass Lexecon adds 20 academic affiliates

Compass Lexecon, the economic consulting subsidiary of FTI Consulting, has welcomed 20 academic affiliates in the last six months.

The affiliates, all of whom hold doctoral degrees, bolster the firm’s offerings in antitrust & competition, healthcare, securities & financial markets, and valuation practice areas, among others.

The affiliates bring extensive consulting, government, and academic experience in competition and merger policy, health economics, corporate finance, and other areas.

“Compass Lexecon is a consulting firm built on a foundation of world-class academics,” said chairman Daniel Fischel. “We are leaning into that tradition by adding talented academics who offer leading economic expertise and expert testimony capabilities and complement our deep bench of expert economists and professional staff.”

Antitrust & competition

Matthew Gentzkow (Landau professor in technology and the economy at Stanford University)
John List (Kenneth C. Griffin distinguished service professor in economics at the University of Chicago)
Ginger Jin (Neil Moskowitz professor of economics at the University of Maryland, College Park)
Ali Hortaçsu (William M. Ogden distinguished service professor of economics at the University of Chicago)
William Rogerson (Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison chair of market economics at Northwestern University)
Luís Cabral (Paganelli-Bull professor of economics and international business and chair of the economics department at the NYU Stern School of Business)
Daniel Spulber (Elinor Hobbs distinguished professor of enternational business and professor of strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and professor of law (courtesy) at the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Peter Reiss (MBA Class of 1963 professor of economics, emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business)
Matthew Backus (professor at the Haas School of Business and in the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley)
Mehmet Ekmekci (professor of economics at Boston College)
Aurelien Portuese (research professor and the founding director of the competition & innovation lab at the George Washington University)
Kei Kawai (professor at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Economics and an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley)

Health economics

Matthew Grennan (associate professor of economics at Emory University)
Jonathan Kolstad (professor and Henry J. Kaiser chair at the Berkeley Haas School of Business and professor in the economics department at the University of California, Berkeley)
Craig Garthwaite (Herman R. Smith research professor in hospital and health services, a professor of strategy, and the director of the program on healthcare at Kellogg School of Management)

Securities, financial markets & valuation

Ilya Strebulaev (David S. Lobel professor of private equity and professor of finance at Stanford Graduate School of Business and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research)
Edward Morrison (professor of law at Columbia Law School)
Audra Boone (professor of finance and holder of the C.R. Williams professorship in financial services in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University)
Vyacheslav (Slava) Fos (professor of finance and Hillenbrand Family faculty fellow at the Boston College Carroll School of Management)
Richard Lindsey (former professor of finance at Yale University and former chief economist at the SEC)

Compass Lexecon has over 700 employees. Parent company FTI Consulting has more than 8,300 global professionals advising on change, risk, and disputes.

Compass Lexecon recently appointed Mary Coleman, PhD, as a head of the US antitrust practice.