Robert D. Stoner Senior Vice President | stoner.r@ei.com B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1970 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1978 Economists Incorporated, California

Mr. Stoner was formerly Deputy Assistant Director for Antitrust in the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. While at the Federal Trade Commission, he helped supervise economic input into numerous antitrust cases, including the General Motors-Toyota joint venture. He has testified on a number of antitrust cases, including as the government’s expert witness in the 1990 merger of printing firms R.R. Donnelley and Meredith Burda in U.S. District Court. Mr. Stoner also testified in 2000 before the European Commission on behalf of Alcoa and Reynolds in their aluminum merger. Mr. Stoner has significant experience in electric utility economics. He testified in 1992-1993 before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission regarding efficiencies in the proposed merger of Entergy and Gulf States Utilities. Mr. Stoner also has extensive experience in international trade and anti-dumping matters. He has testified or prepared testimony numerous times before the ITC and DOC, including in a 1997 anti-dumping matter regarding steel wire rod; a 2000 Sunset Review involving DRAMs; a 2001 Section 201 (“safeguard”) action in Steel; a 2003 subsidy case concerning DRAMs; a 2002-2006 subsidy case involving Canadian lumber; and a 2007 Sunset Review involving Seamless Pipe. He has also testified in 2003 in U.S. District Court in private litigation under the 1916 Antidumping Act. Mr. Stoner has significant experience in Intellectual Property. He has submitted testimony in an ITC Section 337 proceeding involving patent licensing, and has worked on a number of IP-related cases. He has consulted on the setting of RAND licensing rates in a standard setting context. He also was an invited panelist before the DOJ/FTC Hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law in the Knowledge-Based Economy. He has written several Articles in the ABA’s Antitrust and Intellectual Property Newsletter regarding patent reform and RAND licensing before standard setting bodies. Finally, he has written a chapter concerning mergers in the defense industry in a recent edition of “The Antitrust Revolution”.