Debra Aron is a Managing Director and Principal at Navigant Economics and an adjunct professor of economics and strategy in Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Communications Program.
Dr. Aron applies her expertise in economic and policy matters, merger analyses, valuation assignments, and competition analyses in both regulatory and litigation disputes. She has provided expert testimony in regulatory settings relating to the development of competition in regulated and emerging markets; pricing; investment in new technologies; and economic cost analysis. In addition to her testimony on causality, damages, and other economic issues in various commercial disputes and tax matters, Dr. Aron has provided communications industry expert testimony on the economic effects of the regulatory, competitive! , and technological developments in various communications markets, including wireline telephony, wireless telephony, mobile satellite telephony, telecommunications equipment, long-haul fiber, submarine cable, broadband infrastructure, and pay television. She testified in such high-stakes, high-profile matters as SBC’s acquisition of AT&T and AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth.
Dr. Aron holds a Ph.D. 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.