Doug Andrew is Lead Infrastructure Specialist of the World Bank. He was Group Director of Economic Regulation at the UK Civil Aviation Authority, a founding commissioner of Eurocontrol's Performance Review Commission and a member of Eurocontrol's Regulatory Committee. Previously, he was deputy secretary in charge of regulation and tax policy in the New Zealand Treasury, and was educated at Princeton and Auckland Universities. In addition to his career in the New Zealand Treasury he had secondments as economic adviser to the New Zealand leader of the opposition (David Lange) and to the World Bank in the Australian Executive Director's Office.
Bernhard Duijm has been a lecturer in Economic Policy at the University of Tubingen since 1996. His current position is Temporary Professor of Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Tübingen in 1990. Research interests include competition policy in European integration, interdependence of competition policy and international trade policy, and the institutional design of competition and regulation authorities.
Peter Forsyth has been Professor of Economics at Monash University, Australia since 1997. Prior to this he held posts at Australian National University and the University of New England. He holds degrees form the University of Sydney and the University of Oxford. He has specialised in the economics of transport, especially aviation, privatisation and regulation, and the economics of tourism. Most recently, he has been paying particular attention to the privatisation and regulation of airports, and to the use of computable general equilibrium models in evaluating the economic impacts of tourism. He has recently published an edited volume of classic articles on the economics of air transport (Edward Elgar).
David W. Gillen is Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He also holds the position of Visiting Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Research Economist, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California-Berkeley. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1975. He has held positions at the University of Alberta, University of British Columbia and Queen's University. He has published over 60 articles and 15 books in the areas of transportation economics, transportation management, industrial organisation and management strategy. His current research covers airline strategies, airport performance measurement and strategy, network economics and competition issues in airlines and airports.
Anne Graham is Senior Lecturer in Air Transport and Tourism at the University of Westminster. She has specialised in the research, consultancy and teaching of airport economics and management for over 15 years.
Cathal Guiomard is an economist and Head of Economic Affairs at the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation (www.aviationreg.ie). Previously, he worked for the Irish Central Bank, and as a member of the Economics Department of University College Dublin.
Nienke Hendriks is Senior Price Control Review Manager at Ofgem (the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) and currently works on the Electricity Distribution Price Review. Previously, she worked as economic policy analyst at the UK Civil Aviation Authority. She holds an MSc in Economics and Finance (Warwick Business School).
Oliver Hogan is with the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied economics to Masters Degree level, he was previously employed as an economist with the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation (ODTR), Dublin from 1999-2001.
Thomas Immelmann is Director of Corporate Communications, Marketing and Sales at Hamburg Airport since 1997. Before that he was Director of Strategic Planning & Product Management of the German Airline LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH & Co. KG in Düsseldorf, and Vice Director Public Relations and Manager Environmental Affairs for LTU.
Michael Klenk is General Manager, Infrastructure Cost Management for Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Frankfurt, A lawyer, he joined Lufthansa in 1994 as a manager of "collective agreements cockpit staff'. From 1999 until 2000 he was a manager of "airport charges" until appointed to his present position.
Andreas Knorr is Professor for International Economics at the Department of Business Studies and Economics, University of Bremen, Germany. His main fields of research are: transport economics, international trade in services, competition policy and environmental economics.
Peter McKenzie-Williams is with the Transport Research Laboratory (TRL) UK. A highly experienced aviation economist, with 24 years' specialist work in the sector, he joined TRL in 1998 as Head of Aviation. His career began at the Civil Aviation Authority where he was ultimately responsible for monitoring the financial health of a number of major British airlines. Since entering consultancy with Travers Morgan in 1989 he has worked for a wide variety of clients including Governments, local government, airports and airlines. He has become recognised as a leading expert in the comparison of airport charging systems and operational and financial performance.
Otto G. Mayer is Head of the Presidential Department of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA). He is also managing editor of Wirtschaftsdienst and of Intereconomics. From 1995-2000 he was a member of the board of the Gesellschaft fur Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften - Verein fur Socialpolitik (German Economic Association).
William Morrison is an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He graduated with a PhD in Economics from Simon Fraser University in 1993, specialising in Industrial Organisation, Microeconomics and Game Theory. Dr. Morrison's research includes applied theoretical works on transportation markets, dynamic evolutionary games and experimental economics. In transportation economics, Dr. Morrison has contributed to research reports on Canada's airport system and the price elasticity of demand for air travel.
Hans-Martin Niemeier is professor of transportation economics and logistics at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. He received his PhD in economics at the University of Hamburg and worked in the aviation section of the State-Ministry of Economic Affairs of Hamburg. His research focuses on airport regulation and management.
Friedrich Schneider is at the Department of Economics, Institute of Economic Policy, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. His research fields: general economic policy, taxation, shadow economy, environmental economics, privatization and deregulation policies. He is the author of numerous articles and editor and referee for various scientific journals.
David Starkie is a Director of Economics-Plus Ltd and Co-ordinator of Transport Programmes at the Regulatory Policy Institute, Oxford. A former aviation adviser to the UK House of Commons Select Committees he is now general economic adviser to the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation.
Mike Toms is Director of Planning and Regulatory Affairs at BAA plc. He was previously the corporate strategy director, and has worked in the industry for 22 years, including a spell as Chief Economist of ACI in Geneva. He has degrees from the universities of Durham and Nottingham.
Jaap de Wit is Professor in transport economics at the University of Amsterdam. He was recently appointed as Director of the new research and consultancy institute Amsterdam Aviation Economics. Prior to this he worked for almost two decades in different functions within the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of the Dutch Ministry of Transport. As the chief aviation economist, he was responsible for the preparations of Amsterdam airport's privatisation.
Hartmut Wolf belongs to the transport research group of the Kiel Institute of World Economics. He studied economics at the University of Cologne and received his PhD from the University of Kiel. His main fields of research are industrial, institutional, regulatory and transportation economics. He has published articles and books on air transport deregulation, airport privatisation and regulation and also on the auctioning of airport slots. Recently, he was engaged in researching the effects of mobility taxes and road pricing on the spatial pattern of the German economy. Currently, he works on a project analysing institutional obstacles for overcoming bottlenecks in air transport infrastructure.