Four new Senior Consultants – Marianne Lourey, Jeremy Tustin, John Roberts and Nick Will-Johnson – have joined ACIL Tasman in Perth and Melbourne, building the company’s capabilities in energy, water and transport.
* Marianne Lourey has joined ACIL Tasman’s Melbourne office. Marianne has more than 25 years experience predominantly in the energy sector, working in, and consulting to, government, regulators and industry. Her expertise includes energy and climate change policy, economic regulation, energy supply security, business management, business development, manufacturing and power system planning.
Marianne joined ACIL Tasman from the position of Executive Director, Energy Sector Development with the Victorian Department of Primary Industries. Prior to that, she held the position of Manager, Network Regulation at the Essential Services Commission. Previously, Marianne was a Director at KPMG, where she provided advice on a range of energy and water issues including full retail competition in electricity and gas markets.
* Jeremy Tustin has joined the Melbourne office from the South Australian Department of Treasury and Finance and before that the energy division. Jeremy advised the State Government on energy efficiency, renewable energy, climate change policy, rural and urban water policy, and water and wastewater pricing. Prior to joining the SA Government, Jeremy worked with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, where he conducted investigations and managed litigation in a range of industries. Jeremy is also experienced in consumer protection issues.
Jeremy spent a number of years as a Research Associate with the Centre for Regulation and Market Research within the University of South Australia where he conducted research on consumer protection, mergers and trans-Tasman competition regulation.
* John Roberts has rejoined the Perth office after three years as Project Director of the water legislation reform program at the WA Department of Water. John has 35 years experience in water policy, industry development, science and technology and agriculture gained across several government agencies including the Departments Agriculture, Resources Development and Commerce and Trade, the Water Corporation and The University of Western Australia.
John’s areas of expertise include economic analysis and policy, economic impact analysis, regulatory and legislative reform, feasibility studies, business planning, financial analysis and project evaluation.
* Nick Wills-Johnson joined Perth office from the position of senior research fellow at Curtin University, where he undertook industry-funded research examining the impacts of competition policy on railway investment in Australia, and the economics and governance of railways more generally. He was also completing his PhD in economics at the same time, examining the structure of retail petroleum markets and the influence of this structure on pricing.
Prior to his focus on academic research, Nick was involved in consultancy projects in competition policy and infrastructure and industry policy-related fields in Australia and overseas. He has experience in both quantitative and qualitative economic analysis, with a particular focus on infrastructure, regulation, competition policy and institutional economics.
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