Greg Houston
Director
Education
BSc (Hons. First Class) in economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Experience
Mr. Houston has 25 years' experience in the economic analysis of markets and the provision of expert advice in litigation, business strategy, and policy contexts. His career at NERA was preceded by periods working in a financial institution and for government.
Mr. Houston is head of NERA's Australia operations, which he founded after transferring from London in 1998. Since joining the firm in 1989, he has directed a wide range of competition, regulatory, and financial economics assignments. His work in the Asia-Pacific region principally revolves around the activities of the regulatory agencies responsible for these areas, many of whom also number amongst his clients. He has advised clients on merger clearance processes, competition proceedings involving allegations of predatory pricing, anticompetitive agreements, bundling and price fixing, cartel damages, a wide range of infrastructure access regulation matters, intellectual property and damages valuation, and a number of securities class action and market manipulation proceedings. His industry experience spans the aviation, beverages, building products, cement, e-commerce, electricity and gas, fly ash, forest products, grains, medical waste, mining, payments networks, petroleum, ports, rail transport, retailing, scrap metal, securities markets, steel, telecommunications, thoroughbred racing, waste processing, and water sectors. Mr. Houston has acted as expert witness in valuation, antitrust, and regulatory proceedings before the courts, in various arbitration and mediation processes, and before regulatory and judicial bodies in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His international arbitration experience includes expert testimony under UNCITRAL rules relating to disputes in the Philippines and Vanuatu.
In December 2005, he was appointed by the Hon. Ian Macfarlane, Minister for Industry, Tourism, and Resources, to an Expert Panel to advise the Ministerial Council on Energy on achieving harmonization of the approach to regulation of electricity and gas transmission and distribution infrastructure in Australia.
Mr. Houston also serves on the Competition and Consumer Committee of the Law Council of Australia, the United States Board of Directors, and NERA's Management Committee.
