Gregory Duncan:
CLASS OF 1966
Seattle PreparatoryClass of 1966
Seattle, WA
Holy Names AcademyClass of 1966
Seattle, WA
Holy Family SchoolClass of 1962
Seattle, WA
St. Edward SchoolClass of 1962
Seattle, WA
Holy Rosary SchoolClass of 1962
Billings, MT
Gregory's Story
Life
I returned returned to Seattle 10 years ago to join Amazon. I was Chief Economist and Statistician for Global Inventory and Supply Chain and now am a Senior Principal Scientist working in the fraud space. I've taught econometrics at the UW for a few years, created a new class in machine learning and data science for econometricians, an old research area for me that has come back into vogue, I am still teaching that. I'm still married and have three children. And I have one grandson and one grandaughter. My wife is an ex-attorney. One child is living in Seattle. She has a degree in Economics from the UW and rowed on the womens crew team, she is a big data maven at a Kaiser-Permanente . Another finished her PhD in Molecular Cell Biology at UC Berkeley did a postdoc at UCLA was a Professor at UNC Chapel Hill and is now a tenured professor of medicine at UMich Ann Arbor; the other, my son, lives in Portland and is doing product planning for Nike and has a son, Kellan and daughter Sydney. He has a degree in Marketing and Philosophy from U of Oregon, where he played football on the Rose Bowl and Orange Bowl teams. As for me: I'm still doing research, and I still write poetry, flyfish and hunt. I took up woodworking after working summers and parttime at Taylor's Boats on Lake Union while I was in college. It has been an on again off again sort of thing. I raise and train hunting dogs, my current dogs is wire-haired pointing griffon named Anya; She is the 4th griff I have had, I also had her great-great uncle and a second cousin. Professional details: BA 1970 UW Economics and English MA 1974 UC Berkeley Mathematical Statistics PhD 1976 UC Berkeley Economics Assistant Professor of Economics and Statistics 1974-1980 Northwestern University Professor of Economics and of Statistics 1980-1987 Washington State University Senior Staff Scientist (Applied Math, Econ, Stat) 1987-1994 GTE Laboratories Professor of Economics 1987-1991 Boston University Vice President NERA 1994-1996 Senior Vice President 1996- Governing Board 1996- Telecom Strategy and Advice Practice Head 1997-2002 Auction Practice Head 1999-2002,
University of California, Berkeley, 2002-
Deloitte FAS LLP, Director, 2005-2007
Huron Consulting Group LLC, Managing Director, 2007-2009
The Brattle Group, Principal, 2009-2012
Amazon, Principal Economist, 2012-2014
Amazon, Chief Economist and Statistician, Amazon GIP, 2014-2017
Amazon-Senior Principal Economist, Statistician and Machine Learning Scientist, CORE/AI, CTPS 2017-
College
Went to the Universit...Expand for more
y of Washington expecting to major in a science. Got into the writer's workshop and ended up majoring in Creative Writing, until my senior year. Got married my junior year and with a wife and first child switched to Econ and ended up with an Econ and English Double major. A faculty member at UW urged me to try grad school, despite having no math in college, I got into Berkeley with his help. They sent me to the Math and Stat Depts to get tooled up and when I'd finished I'd picked up a Math/Stat master's and an Econ PhD with fields in Theory, Econometrics, IO, Money, Banking and Financial Economics and Labor. I started my first academic job in 1974 at Northwestern.
Workplace
Worked in high school and college at Taylor's boats in Seattle. Also worked as a freelance computer programmer in college and grad school. Started my academic career at Northwestern in the Economics Department and eventually had a joint appointment in the Stat Department. Moved to Washington State University in 1979 as part of a plan to build there department into a top 20 department. We got close, but a new dean didn't see the need for a top ranked economics department in a business school and pulled funding. Many of us left, that was 1987. With three kids coming up college age and University salaries so bad, I decided to join a think tank (Verizon(GTE) Laboratories) for a couple of years as a sabbatical. I ended up staying beyond my sabbatical until 1996. During that time I switched from theoretical econometric research to applied telecommunications economics. During that time I helped craft the rules used by the FCC for the first spectrum auctions. I joined a consulting company(NERA) in 1996 as a Vice President in the telecommunications litigation practice in LA. Started both the Telecommunications Strategy and Advice practice and the Auctions Practice. Did a lot of testifying on the 1996 Communications Act, telecom antitrust cases, some securities and labor. At 55 I took early retirement to return to an academic life, and fortunately landed at Berkeley in the Economics Department. In 2005 went back to consulting at Deloitte FAS LLP, as a Director, left in 2007 to join Huron Consulting Group LLC as a Managing Director. I joined Brattle, where Dan McFadden, is also a principal. Dan and Roy Radner taught me pretty much everything I know and got me started on my career: forever grateful to both. In 2012, we had a grandson and decided to move back to the Pacific NW. Amazon offered me a job and UW has asked me to teach so we relocated Aug 2012.
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