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Managing Director, New York, BRG.

Pablo T. Spiller is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Business and Technology at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. He was a Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Illinois and a Sr. Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the former President of the International Society for New Institutional Economics and was an elected member of the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association. He is also the former President and current member of the Board of ReachingU - A Foundation for Uruguay.

Dr. Spiller has written extensively on regulatory, antitrust, and institutional issues, having published more than 100 academic articles and seven books. Dr. Spiller has also extensive consulting and expert testimony experience. He has consulted on regulatory and antitrust issues for both private businesses and public agencies in the US and abroad and testified as a valuation expert in more than 180 international arbitration cases involving both treaty and contractual disputes rendering opinions on damages, contract interpretation and regulatory issues in a variety of sectors.

He has advised and/or testified in jurisdictions such as the ICSID, ICC, LCIA, and AAA, involving investments in countries such as Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Croatia, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Guatemala, Hungary, Jamaica, Iraq, Korea, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Turkey, Ukraine, the United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. He has consulted extensively with the World Bank, United Nations, and the Inter-American Development Bank as well as governments and private companies throughout the world.

Dr. Spiller was the Editor and subsequently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization for 19 years, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Economics, the Regulation Magazine, the Journal of Comparative Economics, and of the Utilities Project. Dr. Spiller was also the Chair of the Business and Public Policy group at the University of California, Berkeley for five years.

On leave from Haas, Dr. Spiller has also been a Special Advisor to the Director at the Bureau of Economics of the Federal Trade Bureau. Dr. Spiller was also an elected member of the Board of Directors of the American Law & Economics Association.

Practice Areas: Antitrust & Competition, Damages, Energy, Entertainment & Media, International Arbitration, Regulatory Investigations, Telecommunications, Valuation & Financial Analysis.