Emre Carr

Emre Carr is a Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in Wayne, PA. Dr. Carr is an economist specializing in financial markets and financial regulations. He has testified in U.S. and international courts and by deposition on regulatory, financial, accounting, economic, and governance issues including high-frequency and algorithmic trading in futures and equity markets, insider trading, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, internal controls, executive compensation, analysts’ forecasts, public and private securities issuances, SEC filing and disclosure requirements, and alleged pyramid-schemes.

Dr. Carr’s engagements have involved regulations by the SEC and the CFTC, self-regulatory organizations such as FINRA and the NFA, and other securities and commodities regulators around the world. His accounting and corporate governance engagements have involved the application of accounting principles under U.S. GAAP and IFRS, internal control standards under COSO, and executive compensation.

Dr. Carr has analyzed trading databases consisting of billions of order and trade records in equity, futures, bond, and swaps markets worldwide to interpret trading strategies, detect alleged spoofing, layering and market manipulation, and evaluate compliance with applicable regulations.

Dr. Carr has conducted valuation, damages, materiality, economic substance, class-certification, and loss-causation analyses, econometric analysis of securities prices and event studies. He has also participated in investigations and reviews of U.S. and international securities and commodities regulators and other organizations.

Prior to Dr. Carr's consulting career, he was a Senior Financial Economist at the SEC’s Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation, which was created following the financial crisis as the agency’s “think tank” to provide sophisticated, interdisciplinary analysis across the entire spectrum of SEC activities, including policymaking, rulemaking, enforcement, and examinations.

Dr. Carr led the economic analyses and made recommendations on numerous regulations, the incorporation of IFRS in U.S. financial reporting, and enforcement matters involving financial institutions. In addition, he was the subject matter expert in the development of the SEC’s quantitative tool for detecting accounting and disclosure violations by scoring every corporate filing submitted to the SEC.

Prior to joining the SEC, Dr. Carr served on the faculties of Columbia, USC, and Toronto business schools and has taught MBA courses on valuation, credit analysis, financial statement analysis, accounting, and corporate finance. His research on securities regulations has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals. He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting with an emphasis in econometric analysis and capital markets.