Biography
Russell Pittman is Director of Economic Research in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He is also a visiting professor at the Kyiv School of Economics and has previously taught at the New Economic School (Moscow), Korea University, and Georgetown University. Among his most influential papers have been those on productivity measurement in the presence of negative externalities, in the 1983 Economic Journal; on the IBM antitrust litigation, in the 1984 International Journal of Industrial Organization; on U.S. railways regulation, in the 2010 Journal of Regulatory Economics, the 2010 Administrative Law Review, and elsewhere; and on Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian railways restructuring, in various journals and books. In the 1990’s especially, he was a member of DOJ/FTC teams consulting with developing and transition country governments on competition and regulatory policies. He was a member of the World Bank’s World Development Report team in 2001; a co-author of the 2004 report of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport, Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia; and part of the ECMT team consulting with the Mexican government on the establishment of its freight rail regulatory agency in 2015. In 2022 he received the Antitrust Division’s William F. Baxter award “in recognition of the lifetime contributions in economic analysis and contributions made to the effective enforcement of antitrust law by an economist.
