Dr John Marsden

Peter Jacob

Alasdair Norton

Dr Jeff Washusen

Dr Jeremy Cheesman

Philip Jones

Dr Peter Kinrade

Kym Whiteoak

Kapil Kulkarni

Nadja Wiedemann

He has particular skills in the areas of:

• regulatory pricing principles and their application

• risk and cost of capital

• property right and entitlement definition

• trade and registry arrangements for natural resource-based assets

• institutional arrangements for utility and natural resource management

• project integration, particularly of multidisciplinary issues.

John was re-appointed to the Australian Competition Tribunal for a five year term in 2008. 

Peter has over 25 years of experience in providing strategic economic and financial advice to water utilities, government and the agricultural sector.

He has specialist experience and expertise in economic and financial modelling covering business valuations,  revenue determinations, long-term cash flow modelling, pricing and tariff structures and benefit cost analyses.

• natural resource strategic reviews

• financial and economic modelling, with particular emphasis on urban water and wastewater services and irrigation and drainage businessesvenue determinations, long-term cash flow modelling, pricing and tariff structures and cost benefit analyses.

• understanding the key drivers of business profitability

• feasibility and investment studies

• business planning

• pricing and financial investment studies.

In his financial advisory role, Peter works closely and directly with chief executives and financial directors to ensure appropriate commercial and business outcomes.

Alasdair has over 15 years experience in international investment and financial markets and has managed groups within an international investment bank in London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong.  He has served as Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston with responsibility for its equity capital markets business in Asia and its derivative structuring business in the emerging markets globally.

His experience includes:

• preparation, negotiation and execution of fixed income and equity capital raisings for a broad range of entities
  analysis, negotiation and execution of complex financial structuring including credit, equity, foreign exchange, commodity and environmental asset-related derivative products

• assisting entities in their negotiations with commercial and investment banks with regard to capital structuring and the reverse engineering of derivative products

• general business and financial mentoring to a range of new ventures, smaller companies and not-for-profit enterprises

• fixed income and equity portfolio investment management.
  

Jeff has substantial experience in energy industry reform and privatisation, energy market development and operation, utility regulation and a focus on consumer issues, demand side response and application of alternative energy technologies. During the last 25 years he has worked with or provided advice and assistance to electricity industry executives, regulators, Government policy units, industry restructuring groups, acquiring shareholders, large customers, customer advocacy groups and financial institutions. He was a foundation member of the Executive Team of the Office of the Regulator-General in Victoria, where he worked in 1995 and 1996.  Since joining MJA in 2004, Jeff has also assisted a range of clients in the water sector.

He has particular skills in the areas of:

• utility industry reform

• economic regulation of utilities

• performance measurement and operational efficiency assessment

• electricity and gas market development and operation

• energy demand management

• energy and environmental policy  

• development of management, business and regulatory strategy for utility companies and large utility users

• pricing and financial investment studies

Jeff offers MJA clients access to considerable practical, hands-on experience in economic and technical regulation of utility industries.
 

Jeremy joined Masden Jacob Associates in December 2008. He is an experienced resource and environmental economist, and also brings to the practice a substantial wealth of experience in financial operations. Jeremy applies the disciplines of economics, finance, and risk to advise public and private organisations on matters spanning infrastructure investment, production efficiency analysis, market demand analysis, the non-market valuation of environmental and natural resources, social cost benefit analysis of issues of public policy, public sector reform and policy development, and the macroeconomic (CGE) implications of public and private infrastructure investment.

Jeremy has strong analytic and technical skills in applied economic and financial cost benefit analysis, production efficiency analysis, non-market valuation, bio-economic modeling, institutional and transaction cost analysis, and applied micro-econometrics. He has successfully project managed numerous small to medium sized interdisciplinary project teams.

Prior to joining Marsden Jacob Associates Jeremy was the lead water and environmental economist on a five year sustainable water management research project in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. Jeremy has also previously worked as a senior manager in the Australian and US consulting practices of Deloitte.

Jeremy has published widely in the areas of applied water, environmental, and agricultural economics. His publications include professional peer reviewed journal papers, book chapters, technical reports, and conference papers.

Jeremy is a research associate at the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, the Australian National University, and a member of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

Peter is a Senior Consultant with Marsden Jacob Associates. He has a background in economics and environmental science and close to 20 years experience in environmental and natural resources economics, policy and management.  Specific areas of experience and expertise include: 

• climate change risk assessment and adaptation planning;

• economic and social impacts assessment of climate change;
  

• sustainable energy economics and policy;

• GHG emissions monitoring and reporting;

• economic and triple-bottom-line assessment of environmental, natural resources and waste management programs, policies and investments; and

• sustainability indicators and assessment.

Particular sectors of expertise include energy, urban planning and settlements, solid waste and water.

Peter also has considerable experience in government and business liaison and stakeholder and community outreach on environmental issues.  

Philip has particular expertise and skills in the following areas:

• economic and statistical analysis for strategy and policy purposes
  

• econometric analysis of revenue drivers

• reviewing the economic performance of utilities in the private and public sectors (ranging in size from regulatory models for major telecommunications providers to smaller financial models for private service providers) 

• interrogation of the theoretical literature and case studies in relevant areas.

He has extensive experience in the application of National Competition Policy, particularly in infrastructure charges and in the reform of government enterprise and regulation.

Kym is an environmental and resource economist and graduate from a Masters course in Environmental Management from the Australian National University. He has particular technical experience in non-market evaluation techniques, cost-benefit analysis, economic impact assessment, survey design and statistical analysis.

Since joining MJA, Kym has specialised on projects relating to environmental management, non market valuation and water economics. He has also undertaken a number of regulatory reviews relating to these areas, and the Australian gambling sector. His experience relates to the Australian context as well as regional developing countries. 

Kapil has broad international experience in energy policy and strategy issues based on application of sound economic and financial analysis.

He has advised government organisations, utilities and investment companies on energy market issues in the UK, Ireland and Australia and has a detailed working knowledge of electricity markets in these countries.

In particular, he assists clients develop strategies in response to uncertain future policy and market outcomes through application of scenario development and cost benefit analysis and by applying specific skills in financial modelling and asset valuation. He also has substantial experience in investment forecasting for major projects and in developing investment and trading strategies; and he assists clients with investment due diligence, scenario development and analysis and cost benefit analysis.

Nadja is Consultant with MJA and holds a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Melbourne Business School. She has extensive experience in finance, economics and strategy as well as project management. Prior to joining MJA, Nadja worked as management consultant and project manager for a multinational corporation in Germany.

• Specialist financial and economic analysis and modelling, including:

• cost benefit analysis

• cost effectiveness analysis

• Levelised Cost

• Long-Run Marginal Cost

• business valuations

• determination of Cost of Capital / WACC

• revenue determinations

• long term cash flow modelling

• climate change, energy and natural resources economics and policy;

• risk assessment and risk management; and

• cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural program and project management and communication.