Dr. Faten Sabry
Senior Vice President
Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC
PhD, Stanford Business School
MA in economics, American University, Cairo
BA in economics, magna cum laude, American University, Cairo
Experience
Dr. Sabry is a Senior Vice President in the Securities and Finance Practice. She provides economic consulting in securities, bankruptcy, complex damages, and torts litigation. She leads the Securities and Finance Practice’s subprime taskforce and has extensive experience with different types of credit crisis litigation. Dr. Sabry has performed analyses involving issues of class certification, liability, materiality, and damage calculations in cases ranging from contract disputes to valuing a portfolio of mortgages. She has assessed risk management models and examined the prudence of investments including hedging strategies.
Dr. Sabry has valued loan portfolios and structured products including CDOs and analyzed loss prediction models and put back claims for different types of loans. She has analyzed the waterfalls and credit enhancements of synthetic and cash CDOs and used CDS spreads and other market indicators to assess forseeability. Dr. Sabry is the lead author of an econometric study on the impact of securitization before and after the credit crisis for the American Securitization Forum.
Dr. Sabry has extensive experience in estimating liabilities and insurance allocation analysis in product liability, personal injury, and tort cases. She has also estimated liabilities in product recall cases involving drugs, automobiles, and construction products.
Dr. Sabry received her PhD from Stanford Business School, and she was awarded the J.M. Olin Graduate Fellowship, the Graduate School of Business Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation Fellowship. She received her BA, magna cum laude, and her MA in economics from the American University in Cairo. She is a member of the American Finance Association.
Dr. Sabry has testified as an expert at trial and is the author of various articles on the economics of subprime lending, the credit crisis, securitization, econometric analysis of mutual funds' advisory fees, claiming behavior, and determinants of anti-dumping protection. Her research has been published in the Journal of Structured Finance, Journal of Investment Compliance, Journal of Alternative Investments, Business Economics, International Trade Journal, and others. Prior to joining NERA, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, DC.
