Lorenz Wieshammer

Education

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
MSc in economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science
BSc in economics, Universität Mannheim

Experience

Lorenz Wieshammer is a regulatory and energy economist with a strong background in finance. He advises utilities, investors, regulators, and other government authorities in the energy, water, transport, and telecommunications sectors. He provides analytical answers to complex infrastructure regulation and infrastructure financing questions, with a geographic focus on Western and Central Europe.

Mr. Wieshammer’s expertise in financial analyses and modelling, as evidenced by his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) qualification, allows him to regularly submit expert reports to arbitral tribunals, courts, and regulatory commissions on damage quantification and business valuation. Drawing on his sector experience, he regularly acts as a commercial and regulatory due diligence advisor.

Over the last eight years, Mr. Wieshammer has supported regulatory authorities and infrastructure operators in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, France, Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in designing regulatory frameworks, including estimating the cost of capital and efficiency benchmarking scores. He was recently responsible for NERA’s modelling of the French and adjacent electricity markets in an ICC arbitration regarding the unavailability of nuclear power plants. Mr. Wieshammer frequently publishes in leading academic journals such as Energy Policy and The Electricity Journal.