Dr. Faten Sabry
Senior Vice President
Bankruptcy Practice Chair
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 received her PhD in Business from Stanford Business School and 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. Prior to joining NERA, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and an assistant professor of economics at the American University, where she taught graduate and undergraduate economic courses.
She is the author of various articles on the economics of subprime lending, the credit crisis, the impact of securitization on the cost of credit and liquidity, 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. 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. She is a member of the American Finance Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute.
She is a Senior Vice President in the Securities and Finance Practice at NERA. She provides economic consulting and expert testimony in securities, bankruptcy, and complex damages. She is the Chair of NERA's Bankruptcy Litigation Practice and also leads the Securities and Finance Practice’s subprime taskforce.She has performed analyses involving issues of class certification, econometric modeling, liability, fraudulent conveyance, and damages 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 consulted on the valuation of fixed income securities, derivatives, businesses, and litigation settlements. In particular, Dr. Sabry has consulted on complex securities including cash and synthetic CDOs as well as asset- and mortgage-backed securities. She has also evaluated rating agencies’ models, loan loss prediction models, and cash flow models. Dr. Sabry has testified as an expert at trial in State and Federal Courts as well as at a FINRA proceeding.
