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Dr. Debra J. Aron is a Vice President in the Competition Practice of CRA. Dr. Aron applies her expertise in economic and policy matters, including competition and antitrust analysis, intellectual property, class certification, and damages analysis, in both litigation and regulatory disputes. Dr. Aron has provided expert testimony for over 25 years in a variety of high-stakes federal, state, regulatory, and arbitration cases relating to unfair competition; market definition; price fixing; consumer fraud; patent and copyright infringement; theft of trade secrets; and contract disputes. She also has conducted competition analyses in several high-profile mergers and macroeconomic analyses of pricing changes and investment in emerging technologies. Dr. Aron’s work spans many industries, including energy, consumer beverages, big-box retailing, consumer products, postal services, and manufactured products. She has a particular expertise in communications, media, and technology. Dr. Aron holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. She taught managerial economics, pricing, information economics, and strategy at Northwestern University for over 20 years and has published her research in leading scholarly journals. She is also the co-author of the economics chapter of the first and second editions of the American Bar Association practice guide on Antitrust and Telecommunications.