Brian P. Sullivan, Ph.D., Vice President

 In addition to the analysis of economic damages in injury and death cases and the analysis of liability and damages in employment actions, Dr. Brian P. Sullivan has particular expertise in public-utility rate-making cases. He also conducted unique statistical analyses in the nationally reported voter-fraud case Marks v. Stinson, and has analyzed antitrust issues in many cases.

Dr. Sullivan earned his doctorate in Microeconomic Theory and Econometrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He received University of North Carolina and National Defense Education Act (NDEA) fellowships. He served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs, and as an instructor of economics at the North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He received a Ford Foundation grant for the study of economic education at the University of Indiana.

Prior to joining The Center for Forensic Economic Studies, Dr. Sullivan served in a senior management position at a regional telephone company. As a consultant on utility matters, he has directed analyses of regional teleports, state utility rate structures, and Federal antitrust activity in relation to the AT&T divestiture. 

Dr. Sullivan served as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Texas, where he created statistical and econometric models forecasting fixed business investment, residential investment and regional indexes of industrial production and capacity utilization. He also served as an economist with the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), developing statistical models to predict yields on Fannie Mae's biweekly auctions of commitments on FHA-VA and conventional mortgages.

As Senior Economist and Manager of Industry Impact Studies at the American Petroleum Institute, Dr. Sullivan analyzed the economic impact of crude oil price deregulation, the windfall profits tax and various government regulations pertaining to bonus bidding for leases on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). 

Dr. Sullivan has lectured on law and economics at Temple University's James E. Beasley  School of Law. He has also served on the faculties of the North Carolina State University, Northern Virginia Community College and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.