Dr. Stephen Usher
Special Consultant
Education
PhD in economics from the University of Michigan
BA and MA in mathematics
Experience
Dr. Usher's areas of interest include econometrics, finance, international trade, micro-economic theory and risk management. He served as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for several years where he specialized in the German economy and international bond and money markets. As a Teaching Fellow at the University of Michigan, Dr. Usher taught principles of economics and econometrics. He taught introductory economics courses at Rockland Community College and principles of money, banking and financial markets as adjunct faculty at SUNY.
After several years as an executive in the publishing industry, Dr. Usher joined NERA, where he worked for eleven years on a wide variety of assignments with emphasis on financial issues. He has expertise in the insurance and reinsurance industries, derivative securities, fixed income securities, securities class actions, broker dealer disputes, valuations, damage estimation, investment banking, transfer pricing, antitrust, and enterprise risk management. Dr. Usher has testified in federal court and at broker/dealer arbitrations, has submitted affidavit testimony in federal district court and before the Delaware Chancery Court and has given expert depositions.
In 2001 Dr. Usher became a NERA Special Consultant.
Languages
English
German
