Omar Farooque
Dr. Omar Farooque is a principal in the Antitrust & Competition Economics Practice of Charles River Associates, where he works on mergers and antitrust litigation matters in a variety of industries, including healthcare, tech, consumer goods, and industrials.
Dr. Farooque focuses on developing and applying economic models and causal inference techniques to quantify economic incentives arising from mergers. He has applied these techniques in the tech space during his time as a Senior Research Economist at Spotify where his economic analyses informed ad pricing and sales strategies. Dr. Farooque has published insights related to vertical merger enforcement and merger enforcement for the healthcare industry
He holds a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University, where he specialized in Microeconomic Theory.