Ken Willett

Senior Consultant

Ken Willett is a Senior Consultant based in ACIL Tasman’s Brisbane office. He joined the firm in January 2008.

Ken has overlapping experience in economic analysis and project/corporate finance totalling 38 years and 15 years, respectively. He has particular expertise in urban transport economics, public economics, natural resource economics, development economics, project finance and price hedging.

Over the past 25 years, Ken has written many published papers and unpublished client reports, focusing particularly project (debt) finance, mining (including petroleum) commodity markets and hedging, mining taxation and royalty policy, exploration and mining tenement regimes, artificial impediments to exploration, mining and processing in Australia, resource sterilisation issues, the “resource curse” concept, sustainable development, water economics, climate change economics, fuel policy, urban transport economics (particularly anti-congestion policy), road pricing, and issues in development economics (aid, trade, various poverty traps).

Ken applies his economic expertise to assisting a non-government aid agency on a voluntary basis.

Before joining ACIL Tasman, Ken’s roles included heading RACQ’s public policy department, positions as director in small and large corporate/government advisory and merchant banking firms, Deputy CEO of a state government department responsible for mining and processing sectors and associated infrastructure, and divisional director in government departments concerned with mining/energy and policy co-ordination.