Mona Birjandi is Principal Economist and Director of Data Analytics at Outten & Golden, LLP. As the head of Outten & Golden’s Economics and Data Analytics team, she leads the firm’s efforts to leverage economic analysis, statistical modeling, AI, machine learning, and other tools to support the firm’s employment and digital discrimination cases and investigations. She also serves as Chair of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Litigation Economics Group, where she led the inaugural Econ + Law Summit—the first event of its kind convening economists and legal practitioners around the evolving role of data, analytics, and expert evidence in modern litigation. Birjandi earned both a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Yale University, and an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University. She is the author of numerous publications on litigation economics.
