Michael Spackman

Education

MSc in economics, Queen Mary, London University
MA in physics, Cambridge University

Experience

Mr. Spackman specializes in public sector appraisal and evaluation methodology, public expenditure management, safety and environmental regulation, and the economics of public-private partnerships and impact bonds. He has led work on private finance and other expenditure issues for HM Treasury and the UK National Audit Office; on risk assessment for the Health and Safety Executive; on many cost benefit analyses and other appraisal and evaluation applications for the UK Transport, Environment, and other Departments; and on railway safety for the European Commission. He has also undertaken projects on public expenditure management in transitional and developing economies for the EU, the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, and the UK Government. Mr. Spackman is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. Before joining NERA, he was Undersecretary at HM Treasury, where he was responsible for the Public Expenditure Economics Group. Prior to that, he was Chief Economist at the UK Department of Transport.