Dr. Agustin Ros
Vice President
Education
PhD and MS in economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
BA in economics, Rutgers University
Experience
Dr. Ros is a Vice President at NERA with expertise in competition policy and regulatory economics. In the US, Dr. Ros has appeared as an expert witness in telecommunications and energy proceedings and has participated in arbitration proceedings before international regulatory authorities and before the International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Panel. He has filed expert reports on numerous matters before regulators in the Bahamas, Barbados, Canada, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States and has consulted for clients in Brazil, the Cayman Islands, China, the Eastern Caribbean Islands, the Dominican Republic, Panama, and the United Kingdom.
In telecommunications, Dr. Ros has consulted for US and international clients on a host of liberalization topics such as: telecommunications (fixed-line and mobile) pricing and costing, universal service, tariff rebalancing, price cap regulation, telecommunications productivity and efficiency studies, broadband deployment, interconnection (fixed-line and mobile) costing and pricing, competition policy, business valuation modeling, cash flow analyses, credit and bankruptcy risk analyses, and managerial and market strategy assessment. He is co-author of the World Bank's InfoDev ICT Regulation Toolkit, a resource aimed at providing regulators with advice on the design of effective and enabling regulatory frameworks within the context of liberalized telecommunications markets.
In 2008 Dr. Ros took a two-year leave of absence from NERA to work for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on a competition policy project in Mexico. Working with the Mexican Competition Commission, Dr. Ros co-led a team of competition experts assessing competition in a number of key sectors of the Mexican economy, including airlines, airports, banking, inter-city bus transport, energy, pharmaceutical, retail superstores, and telecommunications. The team made a series of policy recommendations to improve competition, some of which were enacted into law.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Ros was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission, providing expert advice and policy analysis on a variety of issues related to the economics and regulation of the telecommunications, energy, gas, and water industries. In 1996, Dr. Ros was selected to participate in the Federal-State partnership in Telecommunications at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). While at the FCC, he worked in the Common Carrier Bureau advising the Bureau and drafting rules implementing the local competition provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the portion liberalizing local telephony markets.
Dr. Ros was an Adjunct Instructor at Northeastern University, where he taught a course on the Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, and has taught antitrust and competition policy at the University of Anahuac in Mexico City. His articles have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Review of Network Economics, and Telecommunications Policy and in numerous industry and trade journals such as Public Utilities Fortnightly and the Journal of Project Finance. The focus of his research is examining the impact of liberalization and privatization on the telecommunications sector. In addition, his research on local competition has been cited in Business Week, and in 2001 he published a book on the productivity of employee-owned firms in the US and Brazil.
Dr. Ros received his BA in economics from Rutgers University and his MS and PhD in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana. He is bilingual in Spanish and English and speaks fluent Portuguese.
Languages
English
Portuguese
Spanish
