ONPOINT ANALYTICS - Key Persons

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• Associate Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Public
• Education / University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Alan Marco is Associate Professor at the Georgia Tech School of Public Policy, and former Chief Economist at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He has also taught at the Williams School of Commerce at Washington and Lee University and at Vassar College. He specializes in industrial organization, law and economics, innovation, patent policy, licensing of intellectual property, competition policy and regulation, mergers and acquisitions, litigation, game theory and empirical legal studies. His academic research currently focuses on uncertainty in intellectual property rights, measuring the magnitude of that uncertainty and the impact of court errors, as well as analyzing the consequences of uncertainty on firm strategy and market performance, and incentives for consolidation. He has studied property rights more generally and the regulatory importance of the implicit trade-offs between patent policy and competition policy. Dr. Marco has published over a dozen articles in leading academic journals including The Journal of Law and Economics, The Review of Law and Economics, The American Journal of Agricultural Economics and The Review of Financial Economics. Dr. Marco has extensive experience in the consulting and litigation arena. He has worked as a consultant for the Tilden Group and the Law and Economics Consulting Group, on assignments related to antitrust and intellectual property. Prior to those assignments he worked for Capital Economics on merger and trade issues. His recent independent consulting assignments have focused on intellectual property matters.

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• Analyst

Alibek Aldangarov is an Analyst at OnPoint Analytics. He earned his bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master's degree in Mathematical Finance from Columbia University.

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• Education / Harvard University
• Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource

Dr. Brian Wright is Professor at the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an economist with the Agricultural Experiment Station and the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. His research focuses on the economics of markets for storable commodities, market stabilization, agricultural policy, industrial organization, public finance, invention incentives, intellectual property rights, the economics of research and development, and the economics of conservation and innovation relating to genetic resources. Dr. Wright has published extensively in the leading academic journals in economics and agricultural economics. He has co-authored or co-edited several books, including Storage and Commodity Markets, Reforming Agricultural Commodity Policy, Saving Seeds: The Economics of Conserving Genetic Resources at the CGIAR Centers, and Accessing Biodiversity and Sharing the Benefits: Lessons from Implementing the Convention on Biodiversity. In addition, Dr. Wright has co-authored articles in Nature Biotechnology, The Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, and Crop Science. Dr. Wright was elected a Fellow of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association and has served on the editorial boards of Revista Economia y Administración and Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He has reviewed articles and proposals for numerous academic journals, for the National Science Foundation and for the USDA's National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program. He has received grant support from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Wright's consulting experience includes insurance, economic damages, patent licensing, and patent infringement matters in pharmaceuticals, agricultural and food markets. He has served as the economist member of the Subcommittee on Proprietary Science and Technology of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), and on the Committee on Intellectual Property in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation of the National Academies' Board of Science, Technology and Economic Policy. Dr. Wright consulted on numerous assignments for the World Bank, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Recently, he has presented invited lectures on the food price volatility in England, France, Austria, Australia, and Brazil, and addressed the Board of Directors of the World Bank and the Advisory Board of Rabobank on this issue. Dr. Wright presented his work on agricultural innovation at the National Bureau of Economic Research meeting on "Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors" in Washington, D.C., and presented his research on patents and innovation in Austria, Beijing, and Melbourne.

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• Consultant to the U.S. Congress
• Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California
• Education / University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Colin Carter is Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he served as Department Chair between 1998 to 2001. He is Director of the University of California's Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. His fields of interest include commodity markets and international trade. He has produced around 150 academic publications in the areas of international trade, agricultural policy, futures and commodity markets, the economics of China's agriculture, and the economics of biotechnology adoption in agriculture. He has received a number of professional awards for teaching and research, including the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association's (AAEA) Annual Awards for Quality of Research Discovery (in both 1981 and 2008), Quality of Communication (in both 1994 and 2011), Distinguished Policy Contribution (1998), and Outstanding Essay for the 21st Century (2001). Dr. Carter was elected a Fellow of the AAEA in 2000 in recognition of his many contributions to the field of agricultural economics. From 2004 through 2008, Dr. Carter was an Editor of the Review of Agricultural Economics. Dr. Carter has worked as consultant to the U.S. Congress, the OECD, the World Bank, Agriculture Canada, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the International Development Research Center, among others.

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• Associate at OnPoint

Dawna Lewski (née Lewis) is an Associate at OnPoint where she manages complex, data oriented projects. During her roughly six years here, Dawna has focused on antitrust, intellectual property and pharmaceutical cases. Her absolute insistence on accuracy, combined with strategic insights and straightforward prose, have made her an integral team member. She draws on advanced SAS and Stata programming skills to work with large datasets. Prior to her employment at OnPoint, Dawna studied abroad at the Meiji Gakuin University in Japan and explored topics in Finance and Public Policy as a Graduate student. Dawna enjoys finding new hiking trails and brunch spots.

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• Economist at OnPoint
• Education / University of California

Dr. Eva Shapiro is an Economist at OnPoint specializing in applied microeconomics, econometrics, public economics, and industrial organization. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, her Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics, and her BA in Economics from Princeton University. Eva's academic work includes research on vehicle safety regulation, technological innovation, merger regulation, immigration policy, and public education. She has a particular fondness for the application of quasi-experimental econometric methods to questions of public policy. When she's not working on cases, Eva enjoys exploring San Francisco Bay Area hiking trails and backpacking in the Sierras.

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• Education
• Senior Economist at OnPoint

Dr. George Saioc is a Senior Economist at OnPoint where he focuses principally on antitrust and class action litigation. He has a special knack for voluminous multi-sourced data and complex modelling. His statistical and economic analyses cover sectors as diverse as food production, transportation, insurance, financial intermediation, pharmaceuticals, securities and derivatives. George has a special interest in cases involving the automotive industry (explained - at least partially - by his weekend hobby of track racing). His Ph.D. research included public, labor, and urban economics, assessing the impact of federal programs on the work habits of retirees and postsecondary students. In the wake of the financial crisis and real estate downturn, he conducted empirical research using private and public data to quantify the impact of state laws and linkages between owners and rental markets.

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• Education / Yale University
• Expert
• Financial Economist

Dr. Johan Walden is a financial economist and testifying expert on risk analysis and financial and insurance markets, with a particular focus on portfolio risk diversification and risk regulation. He has provided analysis and expert testimony on risk-based capital (RBC) ratios of insurance and reinsurance companies, the role of RBC ratios in reviews by industry regulators and credit rating agencies (CRA), and the effect of risk-based capital calculations and capital adequacy models on agency credit ratings. In addition, he has studied the effect of increased leverage on the risk associated with investment in a particular stock, providing expert testimony showing increased volatility from a corporate acquisition that significantly increased the company's debt load and illustrating how this risk could have been substantially reduced through diversification. Dr. Walden is the Mitsubishi Bank Chair in International Business and Finance at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Dr. Walden has been teaching at Berkeley since 2005. He regularly teaches MBA, MFE, and executive education courses covering topics in finance, asset pricing, and financial engineering. He has also served as a visiting scholar at other top universities, including NYU's Stern School of Business, UCLA's Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Oxford University and INSEAD. Dr. Walden has published over 30 academic articles in peer reviewed journals on topics of risk, diversification, asset pricing, and applied mathematics. His research has been published in the top academic journals in his fields, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. His research on heavily-tailed risks and portfolio diversification in economics, finance, and insurance was published as part of the Springer book series "Lecture Notes in Statistics." Over the course of his academic career, Dr. Walden has received over 20 honors, awards, grants, and fellowships. He has presented his research at some of the world's preeminent universities and finance conferences, including the American Finance Association and European Finance Association, among others. Dr. Walden has also served as a referee for many of the top academic journals in economics, finance, and insurance, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, and the Journal of Risk and Insurance. Before entering academia, Dr. Walden worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company's Stockholm office, where he focused on corporate strategy, particularly within the telecommunications and financial institutions industries. Dr. Walden's recent consulting experience includes assisting government entities in assessing new programs and regulations. In 2009, he assisted The Congressional Oversight Panel in evaluating the Federal Reserve Board's Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, which resulted in recognition from national media outlets such as Fox Business, CNBC, ABC News, MSNBC, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Walden and his Berkeley colleague Dwight Jaffee also authored a report to the Swedish Financial Markets Committee analyzing the effect of new regulations on the Swedish banking and insurance systems.

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• Education / Florida State University
• Healthcare Economist at OnPoint

Dr. Kevin Chiu is a Healthcare Economist at OnPoint. He is an expert in applied economics with a specialty in health economics and econometrics. He has used numerous advanced econometric techniques and novel methodological approaches to evaluate health policies, interventions, and burden of disease. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Health Economics, Medical Decision Making: Policy & Practice, Digital Health, and Endocrine Practice. Prior to joining OnPoint, Kevin worked at PRECISIONheor where he conducted health economics research for the life sciences industry. Kevin holds a Ph.D. in economics from Florida State University. During his free time, Kevin enjoys playing strategy games and spending time with his kids.

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• Education / University of Michigan
• Legal Analyst at OnPoint

Eric Iwasaki is a Legal Analyst at OnPoint. Prior to his employment at OnPoint, Eric worked at various law firms with a focus on complex commercial litigation, antitrust, and employment. As an attorney, Eric has worked on all aspects of litigation from the filing of a complaint through the appellate process. This includes experience on a three-month jury trial involving claims of interference with contract related to a drug development agreement, a multi-month bench trial involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty, and a two-week International Chamber of Commerce arbitration for breach of contract. Eric enjoys reading and rooting for the Giants.

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• Education / University of California, Berkeley
• Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics

Dr. Gardner Brown is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Economics at the University of Washington. He is a pioneer in the field of environmental economics and in the 1960s was instrumental in developing valuation methods now widely used in that field, including the travel cost method and the hedonic method. Recently, the focus of his research has been on renewable resources, including managing predator-prey relations and economic approaches to preserving biodiversity and managing resistance to antibiotics and pesticides. Throughout his career, he has had an enduring interest in endangered populations and non-market valuation, including valuations of changes in ecosystems due to global climate change. He has written a number of books including The Preservation and Valuation of Biological Resources and Economics of Ocean Resources, and has regularly published in leading academic economics journals. Dr. Brown has served on the editorial boards of a number of refereed journals including the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of Marine Resource Economics. He was honored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists with both the 2007 Fellows Award and the 2007 Publication of Enduring Quality Award. Dr. Brown has over forty years of consultancy experience, including work for government agencies, international bodies, corporations and law firms. This has included assignments for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Commerce, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Bank and various law firms. Dr. Brown has also served on numerous national committees including the National Science Board's Task Force on Global Biodiversity, the National Research Council's Committees for Review of Outer Continental Shelf, Fisheries, Endangered Species and Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope.

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• Chief Executive Officer and Director of Competition Analytics at on
• Chief Executive Officer and Director of Competition Analytics at OnPoint
• Education / University College London

Dr. Gareth Macartney is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Competition Analytics at OnPoint. He is a testifying economist with a particular emphasis on liability, impact and damages analysis in the context of antitrust, intellectual property, breach of contract, and class action cases, among other types of complex litigation. Gareth holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London. His research regarding the effects of competition on employment has been published in The Economic Journal, and his research on the effects of employment protection regulation on innovation has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics. He received a 2015 Antitrust Writing Award for his work on "Antitrust Proceedings - Then and Now;" an article about the evolving standards for economic analysis in class certification, published in Research in Law and Economics. Gareth's article "Economic Principles for Class Certification Analysis in Antitrust Cases" appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of Antitrust Magazine. Dr. Gareth Macartney is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Competition Analytics at OnPoint. He is an economist and expert witness with a particular emphasis on analysis in antitrust (price-fixing, bid-rigging, market allocation, foreclosure), intellectual property (patent damages), breach of contract, and class action cases, among other types of complex litigation. As testifying expert witness and as case manager for affiliate expert witnesses, Dr. Macartney has analyzed a wide variety of industries, including consumer electronics (digital cameras, smartphones, personal computers, network switches), electronic manufacturing (liquid crystal displays, optical disk drives, lithium ion batteries), retail (apparel, coffee brewers), online advertising, heavy industry (auto parts, steel, ready-mixed concrete, hard rock mining), transport (rail freight, air cargo), agriculture (eggs, milk, fertilizers), energy (oil, natural gas, gasoline), pharmaceuticals, water, and real estate. Dr. Macartney holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London. During his studies he was awarded the W.M. Gorman scholarship and the Advanced Institute of Management scholarship. During his Ph.D. program he worked at London's leading economic research institute, the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has taught economics classes at University College London, given lectures on competition and innovation at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and he has presented his research at the European Policy on Intellectual Property Conference, the European Economics Association Congress, the Royal Economic Society Conference, the London School of Economics, the Research in Law and Economics Conference, and the Bar Association of San Francisco. His research on the effects of competition on employment has been published in The Economic Journal, and his research on the effects of employment protection regulation on innovation has been published in The Review of Economics and Statistics. He received a 2015 Antitrust Writing Award for his work on "Antitrust Proceedings - Then and Now," an article about the evolving standards for economic analysis in class certification that was published in Research in Law and Economics. Dr. Macartney's article "Economic Principles for Class Certification Analysis in Antitrust Cases" appeared in the Spring 2016 issue of Antitrust Magazine. He has also refereed academic articles for the European Economic Review, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the Economics of Transition, Oxford Economic Papers, and Fiscal Studies.

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• Education / University of California
• Expert

Hugh Cadden is an expert in derivative trading markets. He is also the co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Regulatory Training, which provides education resources to government regulators and self-regulatory bodies responsible for overseeing and regulating financial and trading markets. He has been specializing in the organization, operation and regulation of financial and trading markets for over thirty-five years. He has lectured on futures and options markets in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia and has participated in regulatory and self-regulatory training programs. Over the course of his career, Mr. Cadden has had extensive government, professional and private sector experience in matters relating to futures, options, forwards, and swaps trading and markets; clearing and risk management systems and procedures; trade practice and manipulation analysis and litigation; regulatory and self-regulatory structures and programs; and compliance, supervisory and operational systems and procedures. Mr. Cadden has held senior level positions with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission including Director of the Division of Trading and Markets and Deputy Director of Enforcement. Mr. Cadden has testified as an expert on financial and trading market matters before the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Tax Court, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly NASD), National Futures Association (NFA), American Arbitration Association and state and federal courts. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1971 and was a member of the Western Business Conduct Committee (1987 to 1988) and the Hearing Committee of the NFA (1996 to 2009). He also has been registered with Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and NFA and has been Series 3, 4, 7, 63, 24 and 27 qualified.

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• Administrative Assistant at OnPoint
• Education / University of California

Jenny Tse keeps everything running smoothly as Administrative Assistant at OnPoint. Whether it is an incoming client call, an impromptu meeting, or complicated international travel arrangements, Jenny makes sure everyone gets what they need when they need it. Her attention to detail ensures quality workflow throughout the office. Prior to joining OnPoint, Jenny worked with toddlers in an early childhood program that specialized in applying behaviors and theories through play in an enriched learning environment. (Which, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the staff of OnPoint…) Jenny is an adventurous eater and an avid skier.

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• Analyst at OnPoint
• Education

Jeremy Padgett is an Analyst at OnPoint. Jeremy earned his bachelor's degree from Western Michigan University in Economics. He later earned a research master's in Economics from la Universitat de Barcelona where he specialized in Games, Incentive and Behaviour. Prior to OnPoint, Jeremy worked as an Economic Research Analyst at the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific and a Research Assistant with The Hoover Institution at Stanford University. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, playing chess, and listening to bluegrass.

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• Operations Manager at on

John Galindo is the Operations Manager at OnPoint, a job which requires him to wear many hats. He handles Human Resources, benefits, recruiting, employee training, policies and procedures, and new client set up, to name just a few of John's tasks. On top of this, John lends his graphic skills to create PowerPoint presentations, including trial demonstratives. Prior to OnPoint, John worked in key administrative roles for several major companies in the Bay Area. Originally from Southern California, John moved to the Bay Area to attend San Francisco State University and decided to stay. Unfortunately, he still insists on cheering for the Dodgers.

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• Co - Founder
• President

Laura Craft is the President and a co-founder of OnPoint. She brings to her work more than thirty years of experience managing expert witnesses in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, finance, banking, statistics, accounting, marketing, trading and market manipulation, medicine, drug development, biological sciences, and civil engineering. She has been responsible for coordinating nationwide class action litigation, supporting billions of dollars of troubled debt portfolio run off, implementing strategies to assure recovery from failing financial institutions, designing products to facilitate safe and more efficient over-the-counter trading, and lobbying or providing comment to Congress on many important questions of reform. Her experience provides her with a comprehensive perspective on the legal process and the unique role filled by the testifying expert. She frequently provides continuing education courses to attorneys on topics such as data use and damage estimation methodologies. At OnPoint, Laura coordinates the efforts of staff economists, statisticians, database developers, research analysts, and graphic artists to assure that each expert opinion is not only thoroughly supported, but simply and convincingly communicated. She is a co-author of the recent book, Empirical Challenges in Pharmaceutical Litigation. Laura rides cutting horses, dances, attends theater and generally enjoys life while working hard.

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• Education / Yale University
• Research Analyst at OnPoint

Manvi Beniwal is a Research Analyst at OnPoint. She earned her master's degree in Development Economics from Yale University. Prior to that she completed her bachelor's in Economics and Statistics, during which she was involved in research work at the WTO center in India where she worked on issues related to International Economics. Her graduate work allowed her to explore areas of sustainable finance and public policy. She enjoys using causal inference techniques and data analysis to solve complex issues. In her spare time she likes to travel and explore different cultures.

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• Education / California State University

Michael Marx heads the internal accounting team for OnPoint Analytics. Prior to working at OnPoint, Michael owned two businesses in Oakland, prepared tax returns and performed financial audits with public accounting firms, and worked as a Revenue Agent performing tax audits at the IRS. Michael is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and also has his own consulting and bookkeeping business with a wide range of clients including lawyers and technology companies. Michael considers both UC Berkeley and Cal State East Bay as his alma maters. He has an MBA, and is a CPA (inactive) and member of the Phi Betta Kappa Society. As much as Michael loves to crunch numbers, you may also find him enjoying the outdoors on a long hike in the East Bay Hills or the Sierras, or looking for bears (from a safe distance) at Lassen National Park.

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• Education / Allegheny College
• Research Analyst at OnPoint

Noah Tart is a Research Analyst at OnPoint. Noah is a 2022 graduate from Allegheny College where he received his bachelor's degree with honors in Economics with a focus in mathematics. Prior to OnPoint Analytics Noah served as a Research Assistant studying food waste management, ecological economics, and the economics of education. In his free time Noah enjoys reading, playing piano, and exploring the area.

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• Education / University of California, Berkeley
• Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics

Dr. Stephen Hamilton is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is an economist with more than twenty years of experience as a consultant and expert witness. He has provided expert analysis and testimony in cases involving consumer fraud and false advertising, deceptive pricing (including use of reference prices and perceived bargains), food labeling (including application of organic labeling laws, consumer preferences and related effects on price), energy and water markets, and groundwater basin management. His analysis has been applied to a variety of consumer retail markets, including food products (yogurt, baby foods), apparel (baby clothing, children's clothing, high-end and designer fashion, leather clothing and accessories), personal care products (shampoo), hobby supplies and home décor products. He has also studied supermarket and grocery retailing, including the emergence of online grocery markets and related pricing effects. His consulting experience has included measurement of economic damages, market analysis of regulated industries, economic feasibility studies, forensic economics, and portfolio investment modeling. Dr. Hamilton is recognized internationally for his research on retail markets, food and agricultural economics, as well as environmental and land use regulation. His academic and professional honors include providing plenary and keynote addresses at international conferences, selection as a research fellow in the Rural Development Research Consortium, serving on the sustainable management panel for the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, and receiving the Early Career Award for Outstanding Faculty Research. Dr. Hamilton has published over 50 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, RAND Journal of Economics, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of International Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and the Journal of Law and Economics. He has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and as Associate Editor for the Journal of Industrial Organization Education, Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. He has presented his work at over 30 national or international conferences and has given invited seminars at over 20 universities. A prolific researcher, he has secured over $3 million in Federal grants for his research since 2001.

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• Education / University of California
• Research Analyst at OnPoint

Zoe Krieger is a Research Analyst at OnPoint. Zoe earned a bachelor's degree in Social Psychology from University of California, San Diego and a master's degree in Quantitative Economics from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Prior to joining OnPoint, Zoe worked in research labs in both the Psychology Department and the Rady School of Management, focusing in the areas of behavioral economics and judgement and decision-making. Her senior honors thesis investigated the role of attention and gender bias in the resume selection process. As a graduate student at Cal Poly, she helped design and facilitate an experimental economics study that investigated peer effects and effort. She also applied her data analysis and econometric skills to a project analyzing and modeling soft skills and labor market outcomes for the World Bank. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and exploring coffee shops in the East Bay.