Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson Joins Berkeley Research Group as a Special Advisor

EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Berkeley Research Group, LLC, (BRG), a preeminent expert advisory and data analytics firm, today announced that Dr. Laura D’Andrea Tyson has joined the firm as a special advisor.

“She brings an impressive amount of experience from work in both the public and private sectors – I have no doubt she’ll be a tremendous asset.”

Dr. Tyson is a member of President Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB). She served in the Clinton Administration and was the Chair of The Council of Economic Advisers between 1993 and 1995, and the President’s National Economic Adviser between 1995 and 1996. As a special advisor, Dr. Tyson will provide public policy and regulatory consulting for clients in the U.S. and be available to Berkeley Research Group clients on legislative and regulatory developments and their likely economic impacts.

“We’re extremely pleased to have Laura join us,” stated David Teece, chairman of BRG. “She brings an impressive amount of experience from work in both the public and private sectors – I have no doubt she’ll be a tremendous asset.”

Dr. Tyson is presently the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business, at the University of California Berkeley. She served as Dean of the London Business School from 2002-2006, and as Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley from 1998-2001.

Since 2007, Dr. Tyson has served as a Senior Advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute and the Center for American Progress. She is a member of the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project Advisory Council and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation. Dr. Tyson is on the Advisory Boards of Newman’s Own Foundation, The Rock Creek Group, Generation Investment Management, Credit Suisse Research Institute, and H&Q Asia Pacific. She is a member of the Boards of Directors of Eastman Kodak Company, Morgan Stanley, AT&T, Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics, New America Foundation, CB Richard Ellis, and Silver Spring Networks.

Dr. Tyson has written for many publications including The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and was a monthly columnist for BusinessWeek between 1998 and 2005. She has made numerous television appearances on economic issues. She is the author of numerous reports, academic papers and books on competitiveness, industrial policy and international trade, including the influential book: Who’s Bashing Whom? Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries.

Dr. Tyson recently testified before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a hearing on the economic relationship between the US and China.

About Berkeley Research Group, LLC

Berkeley Research Group, LLC (www.brg-expert.com) provides independent expert testimony, advisory services, and data analytics to major law firms, Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, and regulatory bodies around the world. BRG experts specialize in the provision of sophisticated economic, financial, and analytical advice across a wide range of disciplines including antitrust and competition policy, complex damages, finance, healthcare, intellectual property, valuation, and workforce issues. In addition, the firm assists clients in major industry sectors with compliance, business process improvement and strategy consulting.

Berkeley Research Group is headquartered in Emeryville, CA, with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles, College Station, TX, Tampa, FL, Washington, D.C., and London.