Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert

Margaret (Meg) Guerin-Calvert is FTI Consulting’s founding president of its Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy. She has over 30 years of experience as an economist in both public and private sectors, in competition and regulatory policy, mergers, intellectual property, and litigation matters including damages and class certification.

Ms. Guerin-Calvert was a founding director of Competition Policy Associates, Inc. (“Compass”), now Compass Lexecon, and has served as a Senior Consultant, Compass Lexecon and continues in this role on selected matters. She has served as economic adviser to private sector clients and government agencies in the US and internationally on many matters including mergers in many industries (e.g., transportation, coal, chemicals, healthcare, hospitality, cruise lines, airlines and banking), as well as regulatory and competition policy and market inquiries.

Ms. Guerin-Calvert has testified as an industrial organization or healthcare economics expert in numerous litigation matters in industries such as healthcare, mining (Arch Coal challenge by the FTC) and in class certification on batteries, DRAM and pharmaceuticals. Ms. Guerin-Calvert has served as economic expert for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department on the Highmark/West Penn Allegheny transaction; for Wellmont Health System and Mountain States Health Alliance (now Ballad Health) in the certificate of public advantage (COPA) process in Tennessee and Virginia; and for the market inquiry into private healthcare competition in South Africa by the Competition Commission of South Africa Healthcare Market Inquiry (HMI) in retention by counsel for Netcare Group.

Ms. Guerin-Calvert’s experience on regulatory policy includes economic analyses of markets, price caps, capacity, and community needs assessment; she assists clients with economic and strategic assessments on transactions, realignment and economic impact. She leads FTI’s Center initiatives on health, health equity, and economic impact, which provide multi-sector collaboratives and stakeholders with actionable data and advanced analytics on drivers of medical and productivity costs of chronic conditions to quantify their economic impact on workforce and community for innovative strategies and measurable and sustainable benefit. Projects for a Chamber-led collaborative in Nashville and a Western NY population health led collaborative provided key metrics on health status, life expectancy, access, economic indicators and added medical costs and productivity loss due to chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension for these regions and comparator metro areas supported by review of potential interventions. Her Center projects include its selection by the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Foundation) and partnering with the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, to build and disseminate the business case for employer engagement in hypertension prevention and control and ongoing projects to address health disparities.

Ms. Guerin-Calvert served as Assistant Chief, U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, Federal Reserve Board economist, and taught economics at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy (formerly Institute of Policy Sciences). Her professional association or other organization roles include member, American Economic Association; member, AcademyHealth, and member and leadership roles in the Antitrust Law Section, American Bar Association; serving as a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)’s Roundtable on Population Health Improvement; as Chair, NASEM’s Action Collaborative on Business Engagement in Building Healthy Communities; as member, NASEM’s Business Engagement in Obesity Solutions Innovation Collaborative; and Board of Directors, National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention; and several leadership positions of task forces and committees at the antitrust law section of the American Bar Association, where she recently was inducted into an inaugural group of four women professionals in the Section’s Women Connected Committee’s 2020 Hall of Fame-inism for her outstanding contributions to advancing the field and mentoring colleagues.

Ms. Guerin-Calvert has an AB in economics from Brown University; and an MPA from Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.