Fiona Scott Morton

Senior Consultant to CRA

Fiona M. Scott Morton is a senior consultant to the Competition Practice at CRA. She is the Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management where she has been on the faculty since 1999.

Her area of academic research is industrial organization, with a focus on empirical studies of competition. The focus of her current research is competition in healthcare markets and the economics of antitrust. From 2011-12 Professor Scott Morton served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis (Chief Economist) at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, where she helped enforce the nation’s antitrust laws.  At Yale SOM she teaches courses in the area of competitive strategy and antitrust economics. She served as Associate Dean from 2007-10 and has won the School’s teaching award three times. She founded and directs the Thurman Arnold Project at Yale, a vehicle to provide more antitrust programming and policy projects to Yale students. Professor Scott Morton has a BA from Yale and a PhD from MIT, both in Economics. She is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences across the United States and Europe.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Competition Appeal Tribunal certified class action brought by Liza Lovdahl Gormsen v. Meta
    On February 15, 2024, the Competition Appeal Tribunal certified a class action brought by Liza Lovdahl Gormsen v. Meta. The action pertains to the unfair...
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  • 02
    FTC reverses Administrative Law Judge on Illumina/Grail
    On April 3, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reversed the decision of an Administrative Law Judge by finding that Illumina’s $7.1 billion acquisition of...
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  • 03
    CRA experts testify in civil antitrust trial involving alleged tying of PICC lines and location devices
    On October 3, 2022, CRA experts testified on behalf of C.R. Bard in AngioDynamics, Inc. v. C.R. Bard, Inc. et al. in the Northern District of New York....
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