Ann Whitfield, Partner

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Leading expert in the design and application of regulatory frameworks, with a particular focus on the arrangements for assessing network investment, including in the context of renewable energy developments.

Ann Whitfield is a Partner at Houston Kemp, where she is a leading expert in the design and application of regulatory frameworks, with a particular focus on the economic challenges surrounding investment in network infrastructure, including renewable energy. She was a founding member of the NSW Women in Economics committee and previously a member of the Market Development Advisory Group to the Electricity Authority in New Zealand.

Ann has more than thirty years’ experience working as a consulting economist and in government. She has deep expertise across utility regulation, cost benefit analysis and the broader development of energy markets. Ann has directed a number of large-scale projects in the South East Asian region, including a pre-feasibility study of the introduction of nuclear power into Singapore and a competition policy investigation into petrol pricing in Hong Kong.

Ann holds a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University.