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Expert Witness #248881
This expert is a globally recognized authority on technology issues pertaining to intellectual property in the digital age. This expert has contributed to standards initiatives related to content identification, metadata, and rights. This expert has served as an expert witness in litigations related to copyright, digital content and security technologies, in federal court and before the Copyright Royalty Board and the PTO. This expert has testified before and advised public policy entities on digital copyright and technology issues on three continents. This expert is author of a book on DRM, and several whitepapers, book chapters and journal articles on technologies related to digital media and copyright.
This expert has been an invited speaker at many conferences, including the World Economic Forum; National Association of Broadcasters annual conference; Congressional Internet Caucus State of the Net conference; the ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference; International Copyright Technology Conference, Digital Book World, Progress and Freedom Foundation Summit; and Globes Business Conference. This expert has been quoted in publications worldwide and has appeared on news outlets.
This expert was Chief Technology Officer of a knowledge destination web site for lifelong learners backed by scholarly institutions. This expert defined the content and e-commerce technology architecture and built its technology infrastructure. As Director of Publishing Systems at a publishing company, this expert implemented content management systems for many of the company's newspaper, book, and professional information publishing businesses, and performed technical due diligence on acquisition candidate companies. This expert's career in digital media began at a bond rating agency, where this expert developed a pre-web-era architecture for electronic publishing of credit reports. This expert holds a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an M.S. in Computer Science.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #249621
This expert is a Professor at a prestigious University. This expert's primary area of expertise is transportation and public policy, with a particular focus on transportation and infrastructure finance. This expert's recent research investigates transportation finance and the role of public private partnerships. This expert's book examines policies to improve the flexibility of urban transportation systems. This expert has also studied the role of standards in the development and adoption of technology, particularly technological cooperation across jurisdictional boundaries through coalitions and consortia. A case in point is the E-ZPass highway toll tag, now adopted by millions of households in the U.S. Mandatory standards setting processes, which are more common in Europe and Asia, have met with less successful adoption and serious implementation problems. This expert has twice chaired committees of the National Academy of Sciences that reviewed the U.S. Department of Transportation standards program for intelligent transportation systems.
This professor teaches a Master's in Transportation Policy, Operations and Logistics program. This unique program provides students with a solid knowledge of the theory, policy, law, research and practices required for effectively and efficiently supplying and managing modern transportation facilities and services. This expert has also taught a course on the Interstate highway system as a socio-technical system as part of the university's Honors in General Education, which examines the history and development of the Interstate highway system, and the role it has played in the development of modern America.
This expert received a B.S. in Civil Engineering, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Transportation), with doctoral minors in economics, and urban and regional planning. This expert's dissertation examined the history and development of the Interstate highway system from its origins through its design and deployment and beyond.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #249761
This expert is the Centennial Professor of Political Science and Professor of Sociology at a private research University and serves as a member of the General Assembly of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights. This expert is the founder and Senior Advisor of a Latin American project, which conducts surveys that currently cover 28 countries in the Americas. This project is the premier academic institution carrying out surveys of public opinion in the Americas. As a center for excellence in survey research, this project uses "gold standard" approaches and innovative methods to carry out targeted national surveys; conduct impact evaluation studies; and produce reports on individual attitudes, evaluations, and experiences. The survey is the only scientifically rigorous comparative survey that covers 28 nations including all of North, Central, and South America, as well as a significant number of countries in the Caribbean. Each year it publishes dozens of high-quality academic studies and policy-relevant papers. The project has conducted over 100 surveys of public opinion, mainly focused on democracy. This expert has been a Fulbright Fellow and has received grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Science Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, The Howard Heinz Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, USAID and others, and has published over 140 articles, 14 books and more than a 35 monographs and occasional papers.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #249827
This expert is an Associate Professor of Political Science at a State University. This expert's studies and interests include American politics, with particular emphases on political parties, political behavior, public opinion, elections, public policy, and research methodology. This expert's research can be found in some of the field's best peer-reviewed journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly and Comparative Political Studies, as well as in many other outlets. This expert specializes in American politics, elections, political parties, public opinion, political behavior, survey design, political methodology/research design, and public policy. This expert has consulted in areas such as research design and execution, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, jury pool selection, focus groups; statistical modeling and analysis, report writing, and research evaluation. Further, this expert occasionally takes on expert witness projects. Past projects have included expert testimony, market and campaign research, survey development, and data analysis.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #260548
This expert holds a Masters degree in Economics and brings to the table many years of experience specializing in tax issues and public policy. This expert serves as Chief Economist for a highly respected economics consultancy that focuses on the impact of fiscal policy on economic performance; shortcomings of existing tax systems and proposals for reform; and the long-run effects of growing fiscal imbalances.
This expert's work has often played a pivotal role in the policy making process. This expert's work on the adverse effects of high estate taxes on entrepreneurship, for example, is frequently cited by proponents of transfer tax reform. Similarly, this expert's work on the role that excessive excise taxes have played in encouraging tax evasion and related crime has made this expert a frequent witness when states and localities are considering additional tax hikes.
This expert worked as an economist where this expert started as a temporary employee fresh out of graduate school, and left as its chief economist. This expert become a senior economist specializing in tax issues. This expert has also worked as an economist and budget analyst for the federal government. This expert has worked on a wide variety of tax issues including the effects of tax credits. This expert served as an expert witness. In this case the governments alleged that they lost hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue because of illegal cigarette shipments into the city.
This expert's work has been cited in many influential publications. This expert has also published opinion pieces in newspapers across the country. In addition, this expert has appeared on numerous broadcast and cable news programs and given hundreds of interviews on radio stations nationwide.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #121308
This food safety expert holds an M.P.H. from a prestigious university and a Ph.D. from another university, with decades of experience in public health, epidemiology, food safety, and food quality.
This expert has served as a primary investigator and expert witness in matters involving food safety, recalls, and infectious diseases. This expert also works with a consulting team on legal matters involving public health, food safety, public policy, regulatory guidance and compliance, environmental epidemiology, and infectious disease epidemiology.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #260491
This farm and financial management, livestock, and meat economics expert holds a PhD and serves as an academic professor and extension economist in agricultural and resource economics at a public university.
This expert also leads a farm management center. Research and Extension programming cover farm and financial management, experimental economics, livestock and meat market economics, and policy.
This expert has served as a statewide farm and financial specialist since 2020. Outreach work has included public educational programming through online agricultural economics content, including crops and cattle market education. This expert's role includes programming for new and beginning farmers, along with related initiatives developed in collaboration with regional farm management specialists and an agricultural Extension management program.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #281719
This agricultural economics expert holds a PhD and is a professor at a well-regarded polytechnic university, with over 25 years of testifying experience on valuing agricultural losses, including general agricultural losses due to damaged or destroyed crops.
This expert also has considerable experience valuing water as an input in the production of various crops, including the trade-off between the value of water for urban and agricultural uses. This expert has published extensively in academic and professional journals on the application of statistical methods, industrial organization, wholesale and retail market pricing, international trade, environmental and resource economics, and public policy.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #285640
This government enforcement/EPA civil penalty policy expert holds a B.S.F.S. in International Economics from a prestigious university and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from a well-regarded university, and is an academic professor and fellow at a public policy research institution.
This expert previously served as a staff economist at federal agencies focused on environmental protection, trade regulation, and sentencing policy. This expert has extensive experience analyzing government enforcement policies as both an academic and government economist, with particular emphasis on environmental and criminal justice issues.
This expert has published over 125 articles and books on topics including the effect of Community Right to Know laws on firm behavior, why firms reduce toxic chemical emissions, and cost-benefit analysis of environmental regulation and enforcement.
As a staff economist for the U.S. EPA, this expert conducted analyses of the cost of environmental regulation to firms and assisted in developing EPA's civil penalty policy. This expert has served on a U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board ad hoc committee on the economic benefits of illegal behavior, a federal advisory committee on disclosure of environmental information in SEC filings, and a professional statistical association committee focused on law and justice.
As a consulting and testifying expert, this expert has assisted companies in negotiation and litigation involving EPA penalty policy, including independent analysis of likely or appropriate monetary penalties under EPA policies and court precedent. This expert has also worked with environmental engineers and accountants to evaluate economic benefits from noncompliance or delay, cost structures, overhead, and related factors that are often determinants of an EPA penalty calculation.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #288753
This ADA expert is a Professor at a well-regarded university, with appointments across law, arts and sciences, sport and human dynamics, education, and public affairs.
This expert holds a Bachelor of Arts from a well-regarded university, a Juris Doctor from a prestigious university, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from a prestigious university, and served as president of a prestigious law review. This expert has written articles and books on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related laws, and has received grants to study disability law and policy.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #291593
This municipal bond expert holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and is a Professor Emeritus in public management and policy at a public research university. This expert previously served as a distinguished professor of public finance at another public university and specializes in municipal securities.
For over 30 years, this expert served as editor-in-chief of a municipal finance journal focused on state and local government financing and municipal securities. This expert also served for a number of years as a public member on the board of a municipal securities self-regulatory organization created by Congress and operating under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to promote a fair and efficient municipal securities market. This expert has received an industry contribution award from a national municipal analyst organization for contributions advancing the municipal bond industry.
This expert's issuer and conduit-official experience has included bond transactions involving trustees and ultimate obligors, including revenue-bond default, trustee operational control, defeasance, and trustee fiduciary-duty issues.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #293250
This insurance and regulatory expert holds a J.D. and is a former state insurance commissioner responsible for regulating more than 1,000 insurance companies. In that role, this expert created, crafted, and co-developed public policy regarding health insurance, workers compensation insurance, and Medicare Part D and senior health insurance information outreach.
This expert was active within a national insurance regulatory association and served as the national chair of a senior issues task force focused on Medicare Part D, the "doughnut hole," consumer protection, and related issues, along with other relevant roles and leadership positions. This expert was involved in debate and policy efforts at the national and state levels to close the "doughnut hole" for senior citizens. A senior deputy commissioner and direct report kept this expert apprised of operations and related issues regarding Medicare, Medicare Advantage, long-term care, and Medicare Part D. In certain respects, this expert was the ultimate decision maker to the extent allowed by law, particularly in interfacing with federal and state legislators, federal and state health and human services departments, and senior consumers regarding Medicare Part D, related operations and procedures, and the development and execution of relevant public policy. Since then, this expert has maintained involvement in these and other consumer protection subjects as an insurance regulatory consultant.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant. In addition to expert witness work, this expert has worked as a legal consultant for public and private organizations.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #294856
This cannabis economics, operations, and supply chain expert founded and serves as chief economist for a highly sought-after consultancy. This expert is widely considered a global leader in cannabis and hemp business consulting, data, and economic research. Applications of economic principles to create actionable operational and policy recommendations have been recognized by governments and by economic, investment, and business communities.
This expert has over 10 years of experience in the cannabis industry. This expert previously served as COO of a cannabis company, where responsibilities included cultivation, processing, manufacturing, distribution, and retail. During that period, the business grew substantially, and this expert helped guide the company through a public listing.
This expert has presented data and insights about cannabis and hemp economics to a prominent international organization. White papers analyzing adult-use, medical, and industrial cannabis markets have been referenced in major national newspapers, wire services, and leading cannabis industry publications.
This expert is a member of a national economics association, has held a leadership role in a state chapter of a national business economics association, has served on multiple regulatory advisory committees throughout the U.S., and participates on a state council of economic advisors. This expert has provided policy recommendations at the state, national, and international levels and is considered an authority on cannabis economics and the supply chain.
This expert does not take a position on the legality of cannabis or on pending legislation.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #296675
This healthcare policy and cost analysis expert is an attorney with an MPH who specializes in healthcare policy and regulatory matters, with a focus on healthcare cost analysis and payment structures. This expert holds a Master's degree and JD from a well-regarded university and is pursuing a Ph.D. from a public university. This expert has held pivotal roles with healthcare plans, helping shape key healthcare provider policies, and has also served in a healthcare counsel role for a congressional committee, followed by senior lobbying roles with a prominent healthcare professional association.
This expert has experience evaluating claim practices, contractual obligations, and the use of statistical sampling in large-scale claim disputes. This expert's work includes assessing whether sampling methodologies are appropriate in light of denial patterns and applicable contractual and regulatory frameworks, as well as supporting claim documentation review and categorization.
This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #297432
This patent prosecution expert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from a well-regarded public university and a Juris Doctor from a well-regarded university, and is a partner in a respected firm known for Intellectual Property Law. This expert specializes in all areas of patent practice, including post-issuance proceedings at the United States Patent Office (USPTO), advising on complex patent prosecution matters, patent litigation strategy, and USPTO patent policy, practice, and procedure. This expert is an authority on patent laws, rules, and examining practice and procedure, and is highly sought after for expert testimony.
This expert previously served in a senior patent examination policy role at the USPTO. During a distinguished career at the USPTO, this expert was involved in nearly all patent-related rulemaking since 1995. This expert provided administrative oversight and direction for activities including petitions, patent legal administration, patent quality assurance, central reexamination, and Manual of Patent Examining Procedure work. This expert began a distinguished career at the USPTO as a Patent Examiner and later became a legal advisor in patent legal administration. In 2000, this expert was appointed as an Administrative Patent Judge before later serving in a senior patent counsel role focused on patent examination policy.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #297605
This environmental health expert holds an MSPH and a PhD in Epidemiology from a well-regarded public university and has a distinguished academic background and extensive career in epidemiology and environmental health. With over 40 years of professional experience, this expert has held numerous academic and research positions across leading institutions, including associate research professor and professorial lecturer roles at a university school of public health, contributing significantly to occupational and environmental health research and graduate education.
This expert's work has included leadership roles in multiple federally funded studies with agencies focused on occupational safety, environmental protection, public health, and occupational health research, addressing topics such as pesticide exposure, silica risk, and bioterrorism preparedness. In the public sector, this expert has held intergovernmental personnel appointments with federal veterans health and environmental protection agencies, providing expert guidance on veteran health risks and regional risk assessment. Earlier roles include senior scientific and teaching positions within public and private university systems and a public health research institute, including studies on pesticide safety and silica-related diseases.
This expert's career reflects a sustained commitment to public health research, policy, and education, with a strong focus on environmental and occupational epidemiology. This expert has extensive experience with workplace and environmental asbestos contamination, including asbestos contamination in talc and talc consumer products, and has reviewed many mineralogy studies of asbestos fibers in workplace settings as well as asbestos in industrial and consumer talc products.
This expert is familiar with findings concerning asbestos minerals in talc consumer products and the history of that contamination issue. Throughout a career as an occupational epidemiologist, this expert has studied types of silica dusts in contrast with asbestos, including mined and refined talc powder contaminated with asbestos fibers. As a major part of professional duties, this expert has reviewed and testified on scientific literature related to asbestos, silica, and talc, including work concerning talc levels and cancer risk, exposure parameters used in quantitative risk assessments, and cancer risk extrapolations used in asbestos and talc matters.
This expert has taught graduate-level public health coursework addressing industrial hygiene asbestos sampling and asbestos exposure in military and civilian applications of asbestos insulation, including asbestos remediation in military housing. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #298715
This HR and accommodations expert has over 30 years of experience handling accommodations across public-sector court and legislative settings and private-sector environments, and has handled numerous accommodation-related matters.
This expert leads an HR consultancy supporting HR leaders with issues such as compliance, reasonable accommodation, and workplace investigations. This expert also served as an HR Consultant for a state legislative body, ensuring policy compliance initiatives involving ADA, CFRA, DFEH, and related requirements.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant and has assisted with accommodation issues in both federal and state cases.
Start Public Policy Expert SearchExpert Witness #301883
This economist expert holds a Ph.D. and is a court-certified expert specializing in business valuation, valuation methodologies, antitrust, class-action damages, trademark infringement, lost profits, and disgorgement. This expert has authored over 15 expert reports, given a number of depositions, and provided testimony in trial and hearing settings.
This expert holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Quantitative Economics from a university and a B.A. in Economics and Finance from a liberal arts college. Academic experience includes teaching corporate finance, investments, financial statement analysis, and econometrics at several universities. Prior roles include investment banking at a financial-services firm, where this expert conducted valuations, due diligence, and financial analysis for acquisitions and offerings in the financial-services sector. This expert has presented at national conferences, served on policy panels, and remains active in professional and public-facing economic work.
This expert's expert-witness work spans antitrust damages, trademark and false-advertising disputes, DCF valuations, and complex economic modeling. Analyses have been admitted in multiple federal and state cases, including significant antitrust matters and major valuation and breach-of-contract disputes. This expert has also provided influential public-policy research, including financial and rate-impact modeling for a public utility.
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