Andrew Chamberlain
Chief Economist and Principal
Andrew Chamberlain is Chief Economist at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. He specializes in public finance economics and has written widely on tax and budget policy. His previous studies include econometric estimates of demand elasticities, various estimates of tax and budget incidence, statistical methods for estimating tax burdens by narrow geographic areas, and using input-output models to estimate tax pyramiding and the distribution of household burdens from environmental taxes and cap-and-trade systems.
Andrew’s work has been cited in U.S. congressional testimony, NBER working papers, OECD working papers, and published in or featured by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Economist, Newsweek, Tax Notes and others. He has appeared as a television guest on MSNBC’s “Connected Coast to Coast,” CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company” and various radio stations.
Previously Andrew served as a staff economist at the Tax Foundation in Washington, D.C., and at the Cato Institute. While in Washington, Andrew briefed both Democratic and Republican congressional staff on his research as well as analysts at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and various think tanks.
Andrew studied at the London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and graduated with degrees in Economics (cum laude) and Business Administration (magna cum laude) from the University of Washington in Seattle.
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Courtney Conklin Knapp
Senior Consultant
Courtney Conklin Knapp is a Senior Consultant at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. She has conducted research on federal and state policy issues as well as international energy policy and international development. She has also conducted analysis on numerous antitrust and corporate finance cases and evaluated damages for litigation in the semiconductor, microprocessor, pharmaceutical and international freight forwarding industries.
Courtney has worked at Bates Whites L.L.C., an economic consulting firm in Washington, D.C. and the Mercatus Center in Arlington, Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from George Mason University. Courtney has traveled extensively in South America and speaks Spanish.
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Gerald Prante
Adjunct Economist
Gerald Prante is an Adjunct Economist at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. He has conducted research on federal, state and local policy issues with a special emphasis on data analysis, microsimulation modeling and analysis of local geographic data. At the federal level, Gerald specializes in personal income taxation and distributional analysis.
Gerald’s research has been featured in the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Post, among others. He has appeared as a television guest on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” as well as CNBC and numerous radio programs.
Gerald holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Political Science, and a master’s degree in Economics from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He currently teaches economics at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia, and has taught economics at Southwestern Illinois College and East Central College. He is pursuing a doctorate in economics at George Mason University specializing in public finance and industrial organization.
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Feliz M. Ventura
Senior Consultant
Feliz M. Ventura is a Senior Consultant at Chamberlain Economics, L.L.C. She is an expert on climate change policy and international commerce. Feliz’s research has investigated climate change policies’ impact on commerce in markets around the world, strategic energy resource development, and international climate policy regimes. She has used econometric methods to estimate the value of natural resource property rights assignments and to calculate compliance costs for emission control policies.
Feliz has worked at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. and the State of Washington to analyze business opportunities and climate change policy. She has collaborated with the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Asia Pacific Partnership on clean energy market development, and was selected to serve on the Washington State Climate Action Team for the Western Climate Initiative.
Feliz holds a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Pomona College in Claremont, California and a master’s degree in International Policy Analysis from the University of California at San Diego, where she served as an Editor of the Journal of International Policy Solutions. She has studied at the Catholic University of Chile (La Universidad Catolica de Chile) and the University of Chile (La Universidad de Chile), and speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
