Next Generation Experience + Expertise
CD's team of economic experts specializes in industrial organization, econometrics, accounting, finance, transfer pricing and antitrust. These interdisciplinary economic skills address the complex issues that arise in a world increasingly interconnected by technology and trade, yet still balkanized by rival national legal systems.
Our next generation of experts, educated in the U.S. and drawn from Europe, China, and East and South Asia, anticipates our expansion into these increasingly important legal and economic markets.
Economist
Ngoc Ngo
Ngoc Ngo completed her PhD in Applied Economics with a focus on Industrial Organization at Northeastern University in 2019. Before her doctoral studies, Ngoc attended Bates College, where she graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics.
Ngoc’s PhD dissertation applied a modified version of the random-coefficient discrete choice model to quantify the impact of United Airlines’ decision to cease its hub operations at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport on consumer welfare and the firm’s profits. In general, Ngoc is passionate about working with data to formulate economic models to solve real-world problems.
Since joining CD, Ngoc has built models and conducted analyses related to damage calculation, valuation of new technologies and determining reasonable royalty terms in telecommunication and pharmaceutical industries. Ngoc is developing improved algorithms to rank patents and evaluate innovators’ patent portfolio; and has worked on various economic research to enhance methodologies used in Intellectual Property related litigation.
Economist
Ratib Ali
Ratib Ali has a PhD in Economics from Boston College, with a focus in industrial organization and competition policy.
Ratib’s research revolved around how government regulation informs and impacts firm incentives. Ratib’s PhD thesis modeled demand for and supply of air travel to estimate the marginal cost of an “airport slot” (permit to fly one flight) at Reagan Airport, allowing him to compute the changes in consumer welfare stemming from structural remedies mandated by DOJ following the US Airways-American Airlines merger. By exploiting the exogeneity of Newark Airport’s dissolution of slot controls, Ratib also investigated the foreclosure incentives engendered by the “use-it-or-lose-it” feature of freely provided airport slots.
Prior to joining CD, Ratib worked at The Brattle Group as an Associate, where he focused in analyzing antitrust claims and estimating economic damages in industries as varied as healthcare, e-commerce, gig economy, and fine arts. Ratib is the former Economic Analyst at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Antitrust Division. There, his economic analyses and litigation support aided in enforcing federal and state antitrust laws in investigations spanning pharmaceutical, technology, and aviation industries.
Ratib also enjoys teaching; he taught Principles and Intermediate Microeconomics at Boston College from 2016 to 2019, Principles and Cultural Economics at Emerson College from 2019 to 2020, and teaches Intermediate Microeconomics at Tufts University since 2023.
Associate
Chen Wang
Chen Wang received his Ph.D. in Economics from Clemson University in 2019 and Master’s degree in Economics from North Carolina State University in 2013.
Chen’s fields of interest include industrial organization, applied econometrics, and empirical microeconomics. His job market paper analyzes competition among firms and their choices on product quality and variety in markets with unified final good prices as applied to the U.S. film industry. By constructing a theoretical model and applying multiple econometric methods, this research reveals the previously unknown effect of expected market demand of the release week on the choices of films’ production budgets and genres, which are proxies for quality and variety, respectively.
In addition to research, Chen has extensive teaching experience as an instructor at Clemson University. He taught Principles of Microeconomics and Principles of Macroeconomics from 2015 to 2019.
Prior to joining CD, Chen was a transfer pricing Economist at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC in San Francisco. At PwC, Chen participated in and managed a wide range of transfer pricing projects serving various clients, which are mostly large multinational enterprises around the globe.
Associate Manager
Will VanRenterghem
Will VanRenterghem joined CD after graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics & Mathematics from Northeastern University in 2021.
While at CD, Will has made valuable contributions as an analyst, and then senior analyst, on projects in the medical device, semiconductor, and telecom industries, among others. His work has spanned all aspects of expert testimony, including: legal and technological research; deposition and trial prep; and regression, damages calculation, and other quantitative analyses. Since 2024, Will has relied on that experience to manage teams in preparing expert reports. In addition to his work for clients, Will has also contributed to internal research projects regarding standard essential patents, and acts as a co-coordinator for CD’s internal training program.
Will enjoys learning about the interactions between intellectual property rights, their respective markets, and the law. He closely follows current discussion surrounding the licensing and protection of intellectual property, and has represented CD at a number of industry conferences and meetings.
Senior Associate
Pinar Gencer
Dr. Pinar Gencer specializes in patent infringement, FRAND disputes and preliminary injunctions. She helps clients with licensing and damages assessments before district courts and the International Trade Commission. Pinar works with both patent holders and implementers on issues related to patent valuation, exclusion orders and the negotiation of non-discriminatory licensing terms.
With an advanced degree in accounting and extensive experience in economic analysis, Pinar excels in innovative ways to employ public financial disclosures and other generally accepted accounting principles to extract information about the value of patents and patent portfolios. She has in-depth experience valuing patents and licenses in the telecommunications, semiconductor, satellite and pharmaceutical industries, as well as patents essential to cellular, IEEE 802.11 and HEVC standards.
Pinar received her PhD in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas, where her research was recognized by Harvard University and received one of six distinguished paper awards in the accounting discipline at the Rising Scholars Conference. Before economic consulting, she taught financial accounting classes at the University of Texas at Dallas.
