Dr. Robert Eyler is president of Economic Forensics and Analytics, a firm that specializes in economic impact and economic development studies. He is also professor of economics at Sonoma State University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis and a B.A. in economics at CSU, Chico. Robert has been an expert witness for various wine-industry clients in business tort litigation and is a well-known consultant for the wine industry in the U.S. and Canada. Robert has been a visiting scholar at both the University of Bologna and Stanford University. Robert is a Sonoma County native, and his family have been sheep and cattle ranchers in Marin and Sonoma counties since 1910.