Alan is Chair of the Global Intellectual Property Practice of NERA Economic Consulting, and participates in NERA’s Antitrust Practice. He holds a Ph.D. in Economic Analysis and Policy from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.A. in Economics from the University of British Columbia. Alan serves as Visiting Economist at M.I.T.’s Energy Laboratory. He has testified on a wide variety of patent issues in the semiconductor, biotechnology, telecommunications, consumer product, and other industries, as well as on trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters and in matters related to standards and patent pools.