Background
Gurkan Ay is a Director in Resolution Economics, LLC’s Washington, DC office, specializing in economic and statistical analysis of employment discrimination class actions, pay equity monitoring, housing discrimination cases, and financial fraud investigations. He leads clients through AI governance and compliance initiatives, including comprehensive adverse impact analyses of automated decision tools.
With expertise in complex data analytics across healthcare, FinTech, and telecommunications, Gurkan focuses on business process analysis, regulatory compliance, and economic modeling for high-stakes legal disputes.
Previously at ERS Group, he assisted clients in retail, manufacturing, and public administration with class action certification, settlement negotiations, and damage calculations. His work included proactive analyses of race and gender in employment decisions, covering compensation, performance evaluations, promotions, and terminations. His broader experience includes mutual fund market timing analysis, financial damages assessment, antitrust matters, and FCC spectrum auction support. At American Economics Group, he analyzed apportionment of investment income in state taxation of an automobile manufacturer and developed labor force simulation models to evaluate competing collective bargaining proposals.
Gurkan holds a Ph.D. in Labor Economics from George Washington University, an M.S. in Finance from University of Wyoming, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University. He also taught at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
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Education
Ph.D. in Economics, George Washington University
M.S. in Finance, University of Wyoming
B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University