Dr. Zhou is a valuation, corporate finance, and accounting expert with more than 25 years of consulting experience.

His work focuses on enterprise and intangible asset valuation, transfer pricing, solvency and capital structure analysis, cost of capital, and economic damages across litigation, arbitration, regulatory, and transactional settings.

Working closely with counsel and testifying experts, Dr. Zhou has led analytical teams in high-stakes matters involving complex financial instruments, structured finance transactions, cross-border tax controversies, fiduciary duty disputes, and large-scale restructurings. He has submitted expert affidavits and reports and has testified in court. He has extensive experience supporting expert testimony before the Delaware Chancery Court, US Tax Court, federal district courts, international arbitration tribunals, and regulatory agencies.

Dr. Zhou’s experience includes transfer pricing disputes involving hard-to-value intangibles and intercompany financing; bankruptcy and cross-border insolvency proceedings involving solvency, fraudulent conveyance, and allocation of multi-billion-dollar estates; securities and disclosure litigation involving structured products and financial reporting; and contract, antitrust, and arbitration matters requiring sophisticated valuation and damages modeling.

Dr. Zhou has authored and coauthored publications on valuation, tax policy, and financial economics topics, and regularly applies academic research and financial theory to complex commercial disputes. His industry experience spans technology, energy and utilities, financial institutions, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, telecommunications, consumer products, and insurance.

Practices
Education

Brandeis University
PhD in International Economics and Finance

Washington State University
MA in Economics

Fudan University (China)
BA in Economics

Personal Interests

Bin is a member of a number of professional associations, including the American Economic Association, the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, and the National Association for Business Economics.

Testimony

December 19, 2025

Samuel A. Newell, Andrew W. Thompson, Bin Zhou

Before the FERC, Docket No. ER26-455-000, Answering Affidavit of Dr. Samuel A. Newell, Dr. Andrew W. Thompson, Dr. Bin Zhou, and Joshua C. Junge, Regarding Protest of the Independent Market Monitor for PJM on Updates to PJM’s CONE and Net Energy and Ancillary Service Offset Parameters for Delivery Years 2028/29 through 2031/32 on Behalf of PJM Interconnection L.L.C., December 19, 2025.

November 7, 2025

Samuel A. Newell, Andrew W. Thompson, Bin Zhou

Before the FERC, Docket No. ER26-455, Affidavit of Dr. Samuel A. Newell, Dr. Andrew W. Thompson, Dr. Bin Zho, and Joshua C. Junge Regarding Updates to PJM’s CONE and Net Energy and Ancillary Service Offset Parameters for Delivery Years 2028/29 Through 2031/32.