NERA Economic Consulting

oksana.kitaychik@nera.com
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Education

MBA, with distinction, Stern School of Business, New York University
Graduate/PhD-level selected coursework in statistics, Columbia University
MA in economics, Wesleyan University
Bachelor's in international economics, cum laude, University of Economics and Law, Kiev, Ukraine
Bachelor's in engineering, cum laude, Vinnitsa National Technical University, Ukraine

Experience

Ms. Kitaychik is a Senior Consultant in NERA's Securities and Finance Practice. She specializes in the analysis of economic issues arising in securities litigation matters, including damages estimation.

Ms. Kitaychik has consulted on projects involving complex financial assets valuation, business valuation, hedge funds, investment suitability, insider trading, trade execution quality, and broker mark-ups analyses. She also has worked extensively on matters involving subprime and structured finance securities, and risk management. Ms. Kitaychik has consulted on cases involving financial assets, funds, and businesses in many geographies, including the US, Europe (including Eastern Europe), and Latin America.

Ms. Kitaychik has estimated economic, financial, and statistical models for a variety of fields and financial assets, including equities and equity derivatives, credit and interest rate derivatives, securitized products, mortgage-backed securities, and fixed income securities. She also has consulted and provided analyses on various broker-customer disputes; international arbitration cases; securities class actions and class certifications; projects involving business valuation, mutual, and hedge fund assets valuation; and market efficiency. The assignments have spanned a range of industries including hedge funds, mutual funds, banking, sub-prime mortgage origination, asset management, and commodity markets. Ms. Kitaychik's expertise includes applications of quantitative methods in finance, including derivative pricing and statistical methods.

Ms. Kitaychik received her MBA with distinction from New York University's Stern School of Business, with concentrations in quantitative finance, business analytics (statistics), and financial instruments and markets. At Stern, she received the W. Edwards Deming academic award given to "a distinguished student who demonstrated excellence in the field of statistics." Ms. Kitaychik also holds an MA in economics from Wesleyan University, a Bachelor degree, cum laude, in international economics from the University of Economics and Law (KROK, Kiev, Ukraine), and a Bachelor degree, cum laude, in electrical engineering from Vinnitsa National Technical University (Ukraine). She also successfully completed selected advanced coursework in statistics at Columbia University.

Languages

English
German
Russian
Ukrainian