Charles River Associates (CRA) Strengthens Its Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice

Charles River Associates (NASDAQ: CRAI), a worldwide leader in providing economic, financial, and management consulting services, today announced that Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley have joined the Company’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice as vice presidents. Both Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Rowley will be based in CRA’s London office.

“I am pleased to welcome Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley to the team,” said CRA President and Chief Executive Officer Paul Maleh. “They each have more than 20 years of experience in international consulting. In addition to their wealth of experience in risk management and running complex investigations, they bring expertise in strategic planning, team building, and business development.”

“Both Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley share our team’s client-centric approach and commitment to high performance,” said Peter Nolan, CRA Vice President and the leader of the Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice. “I look forward to working with them as we expand our team’s capabilities in the United Kingdom and the region more broadly.”

Prior to joining CRA, Mr. Ferguson worked at a global risk management consultancy in London for nearly 20 years, serving as an executive board member. While there, he established and led a strategic intelligence business for C-suite clients and built multidisciplinary teams of global investigators and advisors. His responsibilities included account management, strategy development and implementation, and international business development.

Prior to joining CRA, Mr. Rowley was the CEO of a global risk management consultancy in London where he implemented a new enterprise strategy, established new service lines, and led the firm through a period of significant growth in revenue and shareholder value. From 2010 to 2019, he served as a managing director and orchestrated the opening of offices in Washington, DC and New York. In all, he oversaw hundreds of complex investigations, with a focus on helping U.S. clients to identify and mitigate regulatory and reputational risks in frontier markets.

Mr. Ferguson has a BA in economics and public policy from Leeds Beckett University. Mr. Rowley has a BA in international relations from Exeter University.

About CRA’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice

CRA’s global Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice provides integrated, expertise-led solutions designed to assist clients to better understand, address and resolve their most complex and critical legal and business challenges. Our team of multidisciplinary professionals, drawn from government and industry, focuses on helping governments, clients, and counsel mitigate and manage legal, reputational, and commercial risk; resolve complex legal and business disputes; and make better and more well-informed decisions by surfacing facts, providing relevant context, and leveraging deep subject matter expertise and analytic tool sets globally.

About Charles River Associates (CRA)

Charles River Associates^® is a leading global consulting firm specializing in economic, financial, and management consulting services. CRA advises clients on economic and financial matters pertaining to litigation and regulatory proceedings, and guides corporations through critical business strategy and performance-related issues. Since 1965, clients have engaged CRA for its unique combination of functional expertise and industry knowledge, and for its objective solutions to complex problems. Headquartered in Boston, CRA has offices throughout the world. Detailed information about Charles River Associates, a registered trade name of CRA International, Inc., is available at www.crai.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

Statements in this press release concerning the addition of Chris Ferguson and Chris Rowley and the strengthening of CRA’s Risk, Investigations & Analytics Practice, and any future business Mr. Ferguson and Mr. Rowley may generate for CRA, are “forward-looking” statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based upon management’s current expectations and are subject to a number of factors and uncertainties. Information contained in these forward-looking statements is inherently uncertain, and actual performance and results may differ materially due to many important factors. Such factors that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from any forward-looking statements made by CRA include, among others: the failure to generate engagements for us; the potential loss of clients; the demand environment; global economic conditions; foreign exchange rate fluctuations; and intense competition. Additional potential factors that could affect our financial results are included in our periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those under the heading “Risk Factors.” We cannot guarantee any future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievement. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements after the date of this press release, and we do not intend to do so.

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