Nate Goldstein

Prior to joining CRA, Dr. Goldstein enjoyed a 23-year career with the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice. He regularly briefed politically-appointed senior decision makers across five administrations and formally recommended whether the Antitrust Division’s prosecutorial discretion should be used to challenge a particular transaction or behavior in federal court.

During his time at the Antitrust Division, he was the economist responsible for co-drafting the Model Second Request and Model Timing Agreement, training Division economists and attorneys on data negotiations, entering into the agreements with administrative personnel that govern data ingestion and workflow, and standing up the technological capabilities required for empirical analyses with big data. Dr. Goldstein has particularly deep experience with investigations that generate the most complex data productions.

Dr. Goldstein supervised more than 150 federal investigations and litigations in several management positions within the Expert Analysis Group (EAG), including as chief of the Economic Litigation Section and as assistant chief of both the Economic Policy Section and Economic Regulatory Section. In those capacities he saw a sweeping breadth of matters before the Antitrust Division, and had at various times the primary responsibility for economics management of the civil investigations originating from: the Media, Entertainment and Communications Section (MEC); the Financial Services, Fintech and Banking Section (FFB); the Defense, Industrials and Aerospace section (DIA); and the Transportation, Energy and Agriculture Section (TEA). Dr. Goldstein was also responsible for the economics management of the criminal investigations originating from the Division’s New York Office (NYO).

Prior to his management roles, he served as a staff economist in EAG on roughly 50 investigations and litigations. He also served for 17 years as adjunct economics faculty for Johns Hopkins University.