Thomas Covert studies industrial organization, energy economics, finance, and applied econometrics. His research has appeared in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Prior to joining Booth, Covert was a postdoctoral scholar in the University of Chicago Department of Economics & EPIC. Additionally, he was a senior analyst at Cornerstone Research (Boston) before pursuing his Ph.D. studies.

Covert holds a Ph.D. in business economics from Harvard University, and a S.B. in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.