About
Michael Dawes is an expert in the electricity and utility sectors. He provides analytical and strategic support to clients, including regulators and utilities, to help in the design and implementation of new markets, tariffs, regulatory frameworks, and modelling approaches. He has supported clients across the Middle East, Europe, Australia, Japan, and North America.
Dr. Dawes is an expert in tariff design and has provided oral testimony on the design of electricity transmission tariffs under cross examination. He has advised clients on the design of network tariffs (e.g., in Britain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and Canada), retail tariffs (in Britain and Saudi Arabia), and generation tariffs (i.e., bulk supply tariffs in Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia). He has also worked on the design of price caps for energy retail.
Dr. Dawes is also an expert in the design of markets and regulatory frameworks in the Middle East, having worked across Oman, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. He has provided strategic support to develop regulatory functions and processes within utilities and helped those utilities engage with stakeholders and their regulators.
Dr. Dawes also builds bespoke, cutting-edge models to support utilities and regulators on a range of issues including quantification of risk, tariff impact analysis, policy design, and cost-benefit analysis. He has built risk models for utilities and corporate clients in the energy sector and bespoke modelling tools to advise regulators on policy.
Education
- PhD in economics, Oxford University
- MSc in economics, Oxford University
- BA in economics, Cambridge University