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Robert G.  Harris

Senior Consultant to CRA
Oakland
+1-510-595-3092
rharris@crai.com
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Education

PhD Economics, University of California, Berkeley
MA and BA Social Science, Michigan State University

Experience

A recognized expert on economic regulation and antitrust, Bob Harris is a professor emeritus in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, he taught courses in managerial economics, antitrust and competition policy, and telecommunications, and served as chair of the Business & Public Policy Group and director of the Consortium in Telecommunications Policy Research. He has published more than 50 academic articles and dozens of reports analyzing competition, public policies, competitive strategies, and technological change.

As an expert witness, he has testified before congressional committees on antitrust, regulatory policy and telecommunications legislation, the Federal Communications Commission; the US Department of Justice; 27 state regulatory commissions; and national regulators in Canada, Australia, and Mexico. Dr. Harris has also testified in state and federal courts, arbitration, and mediation on class certification, relevant market definition, competitive effects, liability, damage causality, and economic damages in cases involving mergers, monopolization and attempted monopolization, price fixing, vertical restraints, intellectual property, and commercial litigation in telecommunications, information technologies, and a wide range of other industries.

A founder of the Law & Economics Consulting Group, Dr. Harris was a member of LECG’s Board of Directors and served as managing director of its Telecommunications Practice.

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