appointments include:

  • Professor, University of Oxford
  • Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security
  • Chairman, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Academic Panel
  • Fellow, Institute of Energy
  • Professor, University of Oxford
  • Associate Editor, Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  • Associate of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford


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Dieter Helm is an economist specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrates on the energy, water and transport sectors in Britain and Europe.

He is Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He holds a number of advisory board appointments, including Chairman of the Academic Panel, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and member of the Advisory Panel on Energy and Climate Security, Department for Energy and Climate Change. He was a member of the expert panel for the Department of Transport's Review of the Regulation of Airports, 2008-2009 of the DTI's Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, 2002-2007, of the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology, 2004-2007, and of the DTI's Energy Advisory Panel from 1993-2003.

Dieter is an Associate of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His career to date has spanned academia, public policy and business. He founded OXERA in 1982 and has published extensively on economic topics.

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Presentations

Utility Regulation, the Regulatory Asset Base and the Cost of Capital
Competition Commission Spring Lecture 2009more

Critical infrastructure and utility regulation: a joined-up approach
Presentation given to Royal United Services Institute conference April 29th 2009more

Publications

Commentary

Britain must save and rebuild to prosper
Financial Times piece June 4th 2009. How did the UK get into such an economic mess? There are many ...more

Time to invest: infrastructure, the credit crunch and the recession.
After the denial comes the reality: this is no ordinary downturn. It is not even simply a particular...more