Irina A. Telyukova, Ph.D.

Irina Telyukova, Ph.D. is an experienced economic consultant and expert witness specializing in the economics of intellectual property, financial services, real estate, consumer protection, labor and employment, competition, and other areas. She combines academic rigor and industry expertise to provide economic and econometric analysis and testimony in a variety of industries, including life sciences, pharmaceuticals, technology and electronics, and banking and financial services. She also provides consulting services in predictive modeling, financial forecasting, and strategic analytics using advanced quantitative and data science techniques. Dr. Telyukova is a recognized authority in economic analysis, with a background in academia, policy, and financial services, an extensive peer-reviewed publication record, and a track record of over 100 speaking engagements worldwide.

Dr. Telyukova’s sample past engagements include: 

Intellectual Property

• Patent damages, medical devices: evaluation of lost profits, reasonable royalty, and irreparable harm pertaining to a medical device for orthopedic surgery.
• Patent damages, electronics: evaluation of reasonable royalty based on a conjoint survey and econometric analysis related to power charger products.
• Commercial success: evaluation of commercial success pertaining to an electronics product.
• Preliminary injunction: evaluation of irreparable harm, balance of hardships and public interest related to at-risk generic pharmaceutical launch.
• Trade secrets: evaluation of unjust enrichment, lost profits and reasonable royalty claims related to trade secret misappropriation related to pharmaceutical development.
• Fraudulent misrepresentation damages: econometric evaluation of fraudulent misrepresentation, unfair competition, tortious interference claims in pharmaceutical development using a stock market event study.

Labor

• Noncompete agreements: evaluation of economic harms related to restrictive employment covenants, including noncompete and nondisclosure agreements, in the technology sector.
• Labor mobility: analysis of occupational and geographic mobility of workers using large employment and consumer data sets; analysis and modeling of worker job search behavior.

Financial Services, Real Estate, Consumer and Corporate Finance

• Underwriting and credit scoring models: development of underwriting, loan structuring and credit scoring models in commercial lending using machine learning methods; analysis of large complex consumer and small business data sets.
• Nonprofit business and financial management: ongoing analysis of financials and business strategy consulting for a nonprofit organization with $1-2m in revenue.
• Reverse mortgages: analysis of reverse mortgage products and their impact on consumer financial well-being in retirement using large consumer and retirement data sets.
• Mortgage and credit card debt: analyses of mortgage and credit card products, consumer debt patterns, and medical expenses during the life cycle using large-scale consumer data.
• Housing market: analysis of housing market dynamics and consumer house-buying behavior using consumer and MLS data.

Antitrust and Competition

• Price fixing: Evaluation of price-fixing allegations, rebuttal of expert opinions and regression models relating to alleged conspiracy related to generic pharmaceutical pricing.

Prior to Insight Economics, Dr. Telyukova was the Chief Analytics Officer for a midsize commercial lending firm. She was previously an assistant professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego, where in addition to her research career, she taught at the undergraduate and Ph.D. levels and was a sought-after peer reviewer for many top journals in Economics, including Econometrica, American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Political Economy. In that time, she repeatedly served as a visiting scholar across the Federal Reserve System and at the International Monetary Fund. Dr. Telyukova also served as Treasurer and later Chair of the Board of Advisors of Villa Musica, a nonprofit organization in San Diego dedicated to providing access to music education to underserved populations. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a recipient of the 4-year Jacob Javits Graduate Research Fellowship, awarded to 10-15 students in the social sciences nationally each year. She graduated summa cum laude with B.A. degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Connecticut College.