Dr. William Baker
Director
Water Group Head
Education
PhD in resource economics, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
(doctoral studies concerned the derivation of inter-temporally consistent strategies under uncertainty and irreversibility, as applied to the case of depletion of non-renewable resources)
MS and BS in operational research, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Post-graduate diploma in economics, University of Otago, New Zealand
Experience
Dr. Baker (Bill Baker) specializes in the economic and financial analysis of regulatory and privatization issues in network industries and leads NERA's Water Group. Since joining NERA in 1989, Dr. Baker has worked closely with many clients, in many countries, to successfully complete projects ranging across sector reform, introduction of competition, development of regulatory frameworks, privatization by sale and by concession, price control mechanisms, cost and tariff studies, demand and willingness-to-pay analysis, financial modeling, and cost of capital studies.
