Henry Ergas

Henry Ergas is an international specialist in regulatory economics. He has been involved in dealing with regulatory issues in a range of industries that include telecommunications, electricity, aviation, surface transport, and financial services.

Professional Background

Ergas' early career was as a microeconomist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. At the OECD between 1991 and 1993 he headed the Secretary-General's Task Force on Structural Adjustment. This task force concentrated on improving the efficiency of government policies in a wide range of areas. As part of this work, he has examined the design of systems for allocating scarce resources in contexts that go from the allocation of R&D funds through to the design of congestion charging. His work on innovation policies, originally carried out at the OECD, has been influential in the design of R&D policies in a wide range of countries.

Since leaving the OECD, Henry Ergas' work has focused on competition policy and regulatory economics. He founded Ergas and Associates, later Network Economics Consulting Group (NECG).

Ergas served as visiting economic adviser to the Australian Trade Practices Commission (now the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) and was subsequently been involved in a number of significant competition policy cases, providing statements and appearing as a witness in access arbitrations and competition law proceedings. He chaired the Australian Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee set up by the Australian Federal Government in 1999 to review Australia's intellectual property laws as they relate to competition policy. In July 2001, Henry Ergas was appointed by the Attorney General of New Zealand as a lay member assisting the New Zealand High Court in cases involving appeals from decisions of the Commerce Commission and in other matters under the Commerce Act. In March 2004, he was appointed as a member of the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ACORE) Advisory Group, which advises the board on matters pertaining to regulatory activities. He is also Adjunct Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore.

Academic Appointments

Henry Ergas has taught at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and been a consultant to the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California; an adviser to the Australian Trade Practices Commission (now the ACCC); and a visiting professor at the Centre for Research in Network Economics and Communications at the University of Auckland. He was a Professor in the Graduate School of Management at Monash University and taught at the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique in Paris. Currently, Mr Ergas is an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the National University of Singapore.

Current Employment

Henry Ergas is currently Chairman of [http://www.concepteconomics.com.au/index.php Concept Economics] , formed in late March 2008.

External Appointments

* 2005 - Member, Prime Minister’s Taskforce on Export and Infrastructure
* 2004 – Adjunct Professor, School of Economics, National University of Singapore
* 2004 – Member, Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ACORE) Advisory Board
* 2004 - Member, French Ordre National du Mérite
* 2002 – Editorial Board, The Review of Network Economics
* 2001 - Lay Member, New Zealand High Court
* 1999 - Chairman, Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee, Attorney-General’s Department, Australia
* 1998 - Member, Commissione Scientifica, Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy
* 1997 - Member, Advisory Panel on Telecommunications Reform to the Minister for Communications and the Arts, Australia
* 1996 - Member, Association des Copains du Gouvernement (A.C.G.), Advisory Board

External links

* [http://www.crai.com CRA Intentional]