Dieter Helm

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 currently a Fellow in Economics, New College, Oxford. He holds a number of other advisory board appointments, including the DEFRA Academic Panel (Chair); the NDA Advisory Board; the DTI Sustainable Energy Panel Advisory Board; and the DEFRA Task Forces on Regulation and Sustainable Development. He also sits on the TERRA FIRMA advisory board. He is editor of the Utilities Journal and associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He is a director of OXERA Holdings Ltd and Helm Associates Ltd, providing consulting services to chief executives of leading utilities and financial companies. His career to date has spanned academia, public policy and business. He founded OXERA is 1982, was a member of the DTI's Energy Advisory Panel from 1993-2003, and has published extensively on economic topics. He recently completed a major study of British Energy policy since 1979 - Energy, The State and the Market, published by Oxford University Press. He contributes regularly to the news media, and has published a series of programmes on Radio 4, called UK PLC. Other biographic details are: Fellow, RSA Fellow, Institute of Energy Fellow, Winchester College Chairman, the OXERA Energy Group