Catherine E. Tucker

Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science and Professor of Marketing, MIT Sloan School of Management
Catherine E. Tucker

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Education

Ph.D., economics, Stanford University

Summary of Experience

Professor Tucker is an industrial organization economist specializing in antitrust economics, AI, digital markets, and data privacy. She has provided expert testimony and economic analysis in multibillion-dollar antitrust disputes, complex mergers, and class certification and intellectual property matters. She has served as a testifying expert in Federal Trade Commission v. Meta Platforms, Inc. and the concurrent consumer antitrust class action Maximilian Klein, et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. Throughout her career, she has presented complex economic frameworks in the courtroom, delivering expert testimony in front of both juries and judges in bench trials. Her recent case work places her at the center of many pivotal disputes surrounding AI. Her litigation experience spans many sectors, including information and communications technology, health care, advertising, entertainment, and data security. Professor Tucker has provided testimony in health care antitrust matters, including United States v. UnitedHealth Group, Inc., and in major data breach litigations such as In re: Marriott International Customer Data Security Breach Litigation. She has twice been shortlisted for the Economist of the Year award from Global Competition Review (GCR).

Professor Tucker has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles and is recognized as one of the most cited economists in her field. Her research has been distinguished with the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the American Marketing Association’s (AMA’s) Erin Anderson Award, the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Donald G. Morrison Long-Term Impact Award, and, on two occasions, the prestigious William F. O’Dell Award from the Journal of Marketing Research. At the MIT Sloan School of Management she has been named Teacher of the Year and won the Jamieson prize for teaching excellence. Professor Tucker is a co-founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab and has been chair of the MIT Sloan Ph.D. and Executive MBA programs. She has previously served as associate editor of Management Science and the Journal of Marketing Research and coeditor of Quantitative Marketing and Economics, and is currently the senior editor of Marketing Science.
 
Professor Tucker is director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Digital Economics and AI initiative. She has testified twice about the effects of data, privacy, and AI before Congress and has presented her work to agencies and organizations such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the European Commission Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). She has given two keynote addresses at the FTC on the topic of the new digital economy.

Catherine E. Tucker
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