As the Commission's Chief Economist, Jonathan Baker makes his home in OSP but, on economic issues, reports directly to the Chairman.  He is Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, where he teaches courses primarily in the areas of antitrust and economic regulation.

From 1995 to 1998, Professor Baker served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission.  Previously, he worked as a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice.  He also was an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, an Attorney Advisor to the Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and an antitrust lawyer in private practice.

Professor Baker is the co-author of an antitrust casebook, a past Editorial Chair of the Antitrust Law Journal, and a past member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law.  He has published widely in the fields of antitrust law and policy and industrial organization economics.  In 2004, he received American University’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Accomplishments.  In 1998, he received the Federal Trade Commission’s Award for Distinguished Service.  Professor Baker holds a J.D. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.