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Sydney, Australia

• Led IPART's economic regulation of the water and local government sectors in NSW, including:
• reviews and determinations of prices for water utilities such as Sydney Water, Hunter Water, the Sydney Desalination Plant, WaterNSW, the Central Coast Council, the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation and.
• setting the rate peg (the cap on annual increases in local councils’ general revenue), assessing council applications for special variations above the rate peg, reviewing councils’ domestic waste management charges.
• reviews relating to pricing, micro-economic reform and/or regulation in a range of other areas (May 2013 to 2021). As an Executive Director at IPART, I also:
• Managed IPART’s Water Licensing program, including reviews recommending the terms and conditions of operating licences for water utilities and audits of the utilities’ performance against their operating licences (May.
• Acted as a Review and Enforcement Officer for IPART’s Energy Savings Scheme (ESS), which included reviewing decisions and determining enforcement actions under the ESS (2017 to 2021).

Sydney, Australia

• Managed public reviews focused on pricing, microeconomic reform and/or regulation across a range of areas, including:
• determining a methodology for setting rents for domestic waterfront tenancies in NSW
• assessing ethanol supply and demand in NSW, to inform the NSW Government’s fuel ethanol mandate
• determining approaches to address environmental issues and impacts in economic regulation
• recommending reforms to minimise the costs of local government regulation
• developing a framework to optimise the design of regulatory instruments (particularly licences) and identifying specific regulatory and licensing reforms.

Sydney, Australia

Lead analyst on a number of public reviews determining the prices of water utilities - including Water NSW's (formerly the Sydney Catchment Authority) prices for its bulk water services and the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation's prices for its water management services to irrigators and other water entitlement holders.

Sydney, Australia

Research, analysis, advice and report writing in the areas of economics and public policy - including infrastructure funding, economic regulation of water and public transport providers, and issues related to state-sponsored foreign direct investment in natural resources.

Sydney, Australia

• Lead analyst on public reviews relating to pricing, micro-economic reform or regulatory reform in a range of areas, including:
• Recommending reforms to enhance efficiency and the potential for competition in the water industry in the Greater Sydney Region (in response, the NSW Government introduced the Water Industry Competition Act 2006)
• Recommending reforms to regulation in a number of areas of the NSW economy to minimise costs and enhance outcomes, and recommending reforms to the regulation development and review process in NSW (in response, the NSW.
• Reviewing the cost structure of major metropolitan water utilities and evaluating potential third party access pricing methodologies
• Recommending terms and conditions of State Water Corporation’s (now Water NSW) operating licence, for its supply of bulk water services in the Murray Darling Basin and other parts of rural NSW.

Sydney, Australia

Economic and cost benefit analysis to inform the development and review of environmental protection policy and regulation.

Master Of Environmental Studies

Bachelor Of Economics