Kelly Lear Nordby is an economist and Managing Director at Ankura Consulting, LLC based in Boston. Kelly holds a PhD and MB in business economics and public policy from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business and a BS in finance from Lehigh University. She specializes in applying economics, econometrics, finance, and statistics to antitrust, consumer, mass torts, and other complex commercial disputes.
Kelly has over 20 years of experience providing clients with rigorous economic analyses of damages, loss, and class certification issues. She has submitted expert reports and provided testimony in arbitration and federal court. She has worked on matters involving allegations of price fixing, bundling, foreclosure, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of statutory duty, non-disclosure of product defects, abusive tax shelters, environmental contamination, crop damages, property value diminution, patent infringement, and patent misuse. These matters span a broad range of industries, including agriculture, airlines, automobiles, banking, chemicals, energy, freight transportation, healthcare, mortgage servicing, pharmaceuticals, retail pharmacies, vaccines, memory storage, and other consumer products.
Kelly conducts research and has published articles on class certification, antitrust, and industrial organization. She has previously taught graduate and undergraduate level economics and statistics courses at Northeastern University, the University of San Francisco, Indiana University – Purdue University at Indianapolis, and Indiana University. She has also held positions with other global consulting firms. Kelly is an active volunteer and has served as treasurer for two non-profit organizations.