Mohan Rao, Ph.D., Managing Director and Principal

Mohan Rao is a Managing Director and Principal at Navigant Economics and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He specializes in intellectual property, antitrust, and financial economics.

Dr. Rao's intellectual property expertise includes valuation, business strategy, and the interplay between intellectual property and antitrust. He has experience in valuing early stage technologies, including in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. He has studied market structure, competition, and performance of numerous pharmaceutical products, including pricing, marketing and promotion, clinical trials and regulatory approval, and competition policy.

Dr. Rao has served as an expert in U.S. and foreign courts and in arbitration proceedings. He has provided economic analysis in a wide range of intellectual property, antitrust, and financial markets litigation, on class certification issues, and has designed and conducted statistical surveys. He has evaluated commercial success of patented products, including in ANDA actions.

Dr. Rao teaches finance at Northwestern University and has previously taught courses in econometrics, game theory, and international trade as a professor at UCLA. He also teaches courses on valuing intellectual property at the Licensing Executives Society. He served as the Chair of the Valuation and Taxation Committee of the Licensing Executives Society.

Dr. Rao is a partner of Expression Therapeutics LLC, a biotechnology firm focused on advanced therapies for treating hemophilia A. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, on the Board of Trustees of the Rotary/One Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the 105-year old Rotary Club of Chicago, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago. He earned a B.S. in engineering from the University of Michigan and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado.

Contact: 312.583.2165 | mohan.rao@naviganteconomics.com
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