Andria van der Merwe

Biography

Andria van der Merwe, Ph.D., specializes in fixed-income and credit markets and market microstructure, including liquidity, high-frequency trading, spoofing, and market manipulation. She is a Research Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise. She is the holder of three U.S. patents, has been published in several internationally renowned journals, and is the author of Market Liquidity Risk: Implications for Asset Pricing, Risk Management and Financial Regulation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Dr. van der Merwe is a Senior Vice President at Compass Lexecon, where she provides both consulting and testimonial expertise in matters involving securities class action litigation, regulatory investigations and proceedings, trading disputes including market manipulation, and cryptocurrency and distributed ledger (e.g., blockchain) technologies.

Dr. van der Merwe earned her Ph.D. in electrical engineering with concentrations in signal processing and applied mathematics from The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. with concentrations in finance, econometrics, and accounting from The University of 黑料传送门鈥檚 Booth School of Business.