Biography
Dr David Evans is an authority on the economics of high technology and platform-based businesses, primarily as it relates to competition policy and intellectual property. He is the author of four books and more than 70 articles in journals ranging from the American Economic Review, Foreign Affairs, and the Yale Journal on Regulation. His many opinion pieces have appeared in newspapers around the world including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Les Echos, and El Pais. A specialist on competition policy in the US and European Union, a topic on which he has written and lectured extensively, he has served as an expert and testified before courts, arbitrators, regulatory authorities, and legislatures in the US and Europe. He has led the economic analysis in several important antitrust cases over the last 25 years including US v. AT&T. Most recently, Dr Evans has led an international economic team on a landmark series of cases involving a large global technology firm in the US and Europe.
Since September 2004, he is visiting professor, Faculty of Laws, at University College London. He was an adjunct professor of law at Fordham Law School from 1985 to 1995 where he taught antitrust law and economics. Dr Evans has a PhD from the University of Chicago.
Profile Highlights
Publications
- 2008, The Role of Cost in Determining When Firms Offer Bundles and Ties
- 11/06/2007, Defining Markets that Involve Multi-sided Platform Businesses: An Empirical Framework with an Application to Google's Purchase of Doubleclick
- 10/2006, A Somber Anniversary: Terrorism Insurance Five Years After 9/11
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Employment History
- 2004 to present, LECG Vice Chairman of LECG Europe
- 2006 to present, Jevons Institute for Competition Law and Economics, University College Executive Director
- 2004 to present, Department of Laws, University College London Visiting Professor
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Education
- 1983, University of Chicago, PhD
- 1983, University of Chicago, MA
- 1975, University of Chicago, BA