Laura Alexander is a former director of markets and competition policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Her primary areas of research include healthcare markets, private equity, residential real estate sales, privacy policy, and labor market monopsony. Prior to Equitable Growth, she was the vice president of policy at the American Antitrust Institute. Alexander also is an experienced litigator, having represented plaintiffs and defendants in antitrust and other cases through trial and appeals as an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP and as an associate and partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC. She received her J.D. from Georgetown University and her B.A. in mathematics from Reed College. Alexander is also an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown.