Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, INDUSTRY NEWS: Aviv Nevo Appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, (Feb 20, 2013)
Organizations Mentioned:Northwestern University | Tel Aviv University | University of California
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division announced that Aviv Nevo has been appointed Deputy Assistant Attorney General for economic analysis. He will start at the department on April 1, 2013.
In making the announcement, Bill Baer, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, stated that Nevo will be responsible for supervising the economic sections within the division. Nevo will provide advice to Assistant Attorney General Baer on both merger and civil non-merger investigations.
“Aviv brings a wealth of economic knowledge and insightful analysis to the division’s talented and well-regarded economic staff. He is widely regarded as an intellectual pioneer in the use of data to analyze consumer preferences, which is fundamental to many of our enforcement matters,” said Baer. “The division is fortunate to have his expertise guiding our economic analysis.”
Nevo is currently a professor of economics at Northwestern University. Since 2003, he has also been a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Nevo received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1997, as well as a master’s degree in economics from Harvard in 1994. He also earned B.S. degrees in mathematics and economics from Tel-Aviv University in 1991.
He taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1997-2003, and has been at Northwestern since 2004.
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