Dr. Pian Chen has over 15 years of experience in litigation consulting and government oversight, with deep expertise in antitrust economics and financial fraud investigation.
She specializes in evaluating anticompetitive behavior (e.g., price-fixing cartels, product hop, and pay-to-delay generic entry) and investigating financial fraud (e.g., securities fraud, spoof trading, and energy price manipulation). She has directed teams to review discovery documents in English and Chinese, construct complex data sets, analyze liability issues, apply advanced modeling techniques to quantify damages, and produce high-quality expert reports.
Prior to founding Nutcracker Economics, Dr. Chen held senior positions in leading litigation consulting firms and served as Associate Director of Economic Modeling at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). She taught econometrics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis and is a native Mandarin speaker.