Alexander White

Alexander White is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon based in Boston.

Dr. White is an expert in Platform Economics and has published extensively on this topic in leading academic journals. His most recent work offers a methodological advance in the pricing of digital goods and services. It provides a new tool for antitrust and regulatory analysis in the online era.

Dr. White brings a wealth of international experience. Prior to joining Compass Lexecon in 2025, he spent over a decade on the economics faculty of Tsinghua University in Beijing. During this time, he was also the director of the Antitrust Research Program at Tsinghua’s National Institute for Fiscal Studies. He was among a handful of high-level international contributors to the Beijing Cairncross Foundation project on “Competition Policy for China’s Digital Economy.” American by birth, he received his PhD from the Toulouse School of Economics and the Diplôme International from Sciences Po, both in France, and has also lived in Spain and Turkey. During his time abroad, he was a frequent visitor at US institutions such as Microsoft, where he worked on search engine business models, and Harvard Business School, where he co-authored a business case on blockchain-based social media.

He graduated from Columbia College in New York City, where he was on the varsity golf team.