Dr. Wilner's disputes expertise encompasses a variety of industries and a broad range of single plaintiff, class action and criminal disputes, including antitrust liability and damages, business interruption, business valuations, economic analyses, intellectual property, labor (disparate impact, wage and hour and wrongful termination), medical malpractice/personal injury/wrongful death, product liability, statistical data analyses, warranty and other litigation matters. He was an expert panelist discussing “The Conjoint Damages Standoff: Benefit of the Bargain or Procedural Shortcut?” at the ABA’s 26th Annual National Institute on Class Actions.

Dr. Wilner’s consulting expertise includes advising corporations and governments on economic and statistical issues. His notable engagements include redesigning statistical aspects of an automobile manufacturer's warranty process and building an economic model to restructure a $2.5 billion annual tariff, for which he received a special commendation from the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Dr. Wilner served as a research assistant and studied under four Nobel Laureates while earning a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics (magna cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania, a general course degree in mathematics and statistics from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in managerial economics and decision science from Northwestern University. He won teaching awards when he was a professor at Northwestern University, the University of Michigan, the University of Iowa and the Helsinki School of Economics. His research has been published in leading academic journals and textbooks, received a National Science Foundation grant and has been cited by 1,000+ academic papers.