Fiona Scott Morton

Senior Consultant

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
    CRA experts help deliver a $406 million winning verdict for Regeneron
    The jury awarded Regeneron $406 million, including $272 million in punitive damages, finding that the defendant, Amgen, bundled the sales of its cholesterol...
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  • 02
    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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  • 03
    CRA Competition team advises on Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard across jurisdictions worldwide
    On October 13, 2023, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it would clear Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard – subject to...
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