Dr. Zoe Fannon

Education

PhD in economics, University of Oxford 
MPhil in economics, University of Oxford
BA in philosophy, politics, and economics, University of Oxford 

Experience

Zoe Fannon supports clients in networked utilities sectors—including electricity, heat, and water—on the regulation of pricing and market activity, with particular expertise in data analysis and econometrics. Dr. Fannon has conducted econometric analysis for a variety of clients including: benchmarking costs for a consortium of European electricity transmission system operators and for the UK’s National Air Traffic Services; providing estimates of customer willingness to pay for improvements in water and sewerage services for a number of English water and sewerage companies; and examining the potential for industrial self-supply in response to transmission tariff changes for the Alberta Electric System Operator.

Dr. Fannon has advised clients across the electricity value chain and in the heat, water, and transport sectors. She has worked in jurisdictions including the UK, North America, continental Europe, and the Middle East. Her experience includes analysis supporting price control submissions, work on market pricing for energy storage assets, cost benchmarking, tariff design, willingness-to-pay studies of customer preferences, and regulatory due diligence. 

Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Fannon completed her doctoral thesis on identification in econometric models for repeated cross-section and panel data at the University of Oxford.