Dr. Nayak earned his Ph.D. at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, Indiana. Dr. Nayak’s primary teaching and research interests are empirical international trade, data analytics, health economics, economics of multinational enterprises and microeconometrics. Before joining Mercer, Dr. Nayak taught empirical international economics at Auburn University and worked as a transfer pricing specialist at Deloitte Tax LLP. His work at Deloitte Tax LLP involved analyzing the accounts of multinational companies to identify and benchmark reportable cross border transactions. It also involved conducting functional interviews with the individuals in different departments in such multinational companies to thoroughly understand, analyze and optimize the overall functions conducted by such companies in different countries, so as to minimize their global effective tax rate.