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Daniel M. Kasper

Managing Director & Head of the Transportation Practice
LECG, LLC

Daniel Kasper is the founding director for LECG's Cambridge office and head of the firm's transportation practice. His practice focuses on competition and public policy issues in the transportation industry generally and the aviation industry in particular. In addition to consulting services, Mr. Kasper frequently serves as an expert witness on a wide range of aviation industry issues before legislative committees, executive agencies, and courts.

Previously, Mr. Kasper was with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting, where he headed the firm's Transportation Industry Program and directed a number of engagements involving domestic and international transportation clients in both the private and public sectors. He also managed Harbridge House, Inc.'s transportation practice and was responsible for a wide array of projects involving domestic and international transportation issues affecting every mode of transportation.

In 1993, Mr. Kasper was appointed and served as one of fifteen voting members of the U.S. National Airline Commission. He has also served on the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board from 1979-1983 as the Director of International Aviation and chief staff advisor to Board Member and Vice-Chairperson Elizabeth E. Bailey.

Mr. Kasper has been a faculty member at the Harvard Business School and the University of Southern California. He has also written two books on the airline industry, Deregulation and Globalization: Liberalizing International Trade in Air Services and The US Regional Airline Industry to 1996: Markets, Competition, and the Demand for Aircraft.

Mr. Kasper earned his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Kansas as well as MBA and JD degrees from the University of Chicago.