Kurt Strunk
Vice President
Education
MBA, with Distinction, The European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)
BA in economics, with Honors, Vassar College
Experience
Mr. Strunk has extensive experience working on strategic, regulatory, and corporate financial issues in the energy industry. In the US, he has advised utilities on sector restructuring, contract and asset valuation, origination, hedging and risk management, regulatory strategy, prudence, cost of capital, affiliate transactions, and retail market issues. He has been a key member of the NERA team implementing auctions for the provision of default electric service in New Jersey and Illinois.
Mr. Strunk has also advised governments, regulators, and energy companies on issues relating to industry structure, regulation, and sector reform in Latin America and Europe. He coauthored the white paper outlining structural reform and partial privatization of the Mexican power sector, which was developed for the Mexico's National Congress in 2000. In 2002 and 2003, Mr. Strunk advised the Commission for Energy Regulation in Ireland on the development of a solicitation for the construction of a 400 MW power generation facility and associated offtake contract. He has also advised Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad on the development of its independent power program and, in 1996, was part of the NERA team working on power sector restructuring in Spain.
In addition, Mr. Strunk has been a member of NERA's Securities and Finance Practice, has filed testimony on the financial structure and capital costs of insurers, and has analyzed stock market hedging strategies in the context of broker-dealer disputes.
Mr. Strunk serves as a consulting and testifying expert in regulatory proceedings, commercial litigation, and arbitration proceedings. He has been retained as an expert to testify in US Tax Court, US Federal Court, and US Bankruptcy Court, as well as before public utilities boards in the US and Canada.
Mr. Strunk has been published in World Development and The Electricity Journal.
