Guy Jakeman

Senior Consultant

Guy Jakeman is a Principal Modeller working in the Canberra office of ACIL Tasman. Guy specialises in economic modelling and economic impact analysis using CGE and input-output modelling techniques. Guy has applied these methods at the regional, state, national and global levels across a diverse range of industries including the mining, energy, food processing and transport industries.

Guy is a highly experienced quantitative modeller, familiar with a wide range of models and modelling techniques and is a key member of ACIL Tasman’s modelling team. Understanding the strengths and limitations of CGE models is critical to obtaining useful and credible estimates of the economic impacts of a project or policy. Guy has a strong history in applying a wide range of tools and methods to ensure that the economic implications of a project or policy account for the full range of impacts. Since joining ACIL Tasman, Guy has used CGE and IO models to estimate the impacts of productivity improvements related to rail signalling equipment, road congestion and spatial information technologies as well as the direct and indirect impacts associated with construction and operation of a new coal and oil mining operations, new LNG facilities and domestic gas supplies, defence vehicle manufacturing as well as the expansion of existing uranium mining and aluminium smelter operations.

Between 1997 and 2008, Guy worked for the Australian Government at ABARE and was the Senior Modeller in the international policy branch. He was extensively involved in analysing medium and long term international and domestic energy markets, including a series of detailed studies focussing on the potential impacts of energy and emission reduction technologies including CCS technologies. Guy was also extensively involved in studies analysing the economic effects of alternative climate change policy proposals, various free trade policies as well as an assessment of the potential impact of an avian influenza outbreak.

Guy has strong demographic modelling experience and has built a detailed demographic model for ACIL Tasman’s general equilibrium model of the world economy. The demographic model is a key determinant for understanding the future growth of the economy including the demand for energy and energy intensive products as well as allowing analysis of the demographic and economic effects of a major disease outbreak.
Guy also brings finance experience to projects.

Guy has a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Statistics (First Class honours).