Halbert White, PhD

Founder

PhD, Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; AB, Princeton University (Valedictorian)

Halbert White is Chancellor’s Associates Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is one of the world’s leading economists with particular expertise in econometrics, predictive modeling, and artificial neural networks.

Dr. White has more than 30 years of academic and consulting experience. He has worked closely with legal and corporate clients on a wide variety of issues to provide both expert testimony and senior-level guidance. His expertise has been successfully applied to solve complex challenges for top companies in the pharmaceutical, investment banking, and financial services industries.

Dr. White is a prominent testifying expert on damages. He has provided expert services to numerous defendant and plaintiff clients involved in price-fixing matters in the United States and elsewhere. He has also appeared before U.S. competition agencies to present economic analysis of the antitrust implications of proposed mergers and acquisitions.

In academia, Dr. White is recognized for setting new research standards and for influencing a broad range of disciplines with his innovative approaches. His 1980 paper on robust standard errors achieved the unique distinction of becoming the most cited paper in the economics literature from the last 35 years. A pioneer in his field, Dr. White has published more than 100 books and articles, is a frequent speaker at economic conferences around the world, and holds multiple distinctions including American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and Econometric Society Fellow. He is also listed in Global Competition Review’s International Who’s Who of Competition Economists.