n_hartley@oxera.com
+44 (0)1865 253 078

Location: Oxford
Language skills: English




Nick specialises in public policy and regulatory issues, particularly as applied to the energy sector and to climate change policy. He has extensive experience as an economic adviser in a number of government departments and to a range of commercial clients. Having been Head of Energy Economics and Statistics at the DTI, he is currently a member of the boards of the UK Energy Research Centre, the Low Carbon Vehicles Partnership and the British Institute of Energy Economics (where he is past Chairman). In 2001–02, he led the Cabinet Office team that produced the energy policy review which led to the UK government’s 2003 Energy White Paper, and in 2004–05, he was a member of Defra’s task force that examined opportunities for stimulating the use of biomass in heat and power.

Project experience

• Assisted the National Audit Office with its review of the Renewables Obligation (2005)
• Advised the DTI on aspects of energy security (2005)
• Work for Ordnance Survey on its role in the UK economy (1999 and 2005)
• Advised the DTI on the regulation of offshore infrastructure for electricity generation (2002)
• Advice to the States of Jersey on economic policies (2001–02)
• Advice to an Italian client on telecoms interconnection rates (2001)
• Advice to Defra on the economics of financing flood protection (2001)
• Advice to an Australian client on competition in the Australian cable and telephony market (2000)
• Advised a gas company on the impact of the Climate Change Levy (2000)
• Regulatory advice to Royal Mail (1998–2000)
• Advice to EWS Railway on the taxation of transport to reflect environmental externalities (1999)
• Advised Defra on the economics of the landfill levy (1999)
• Advised a water company during the 1999 periodic price review (1999)
• Advised Defra on the future of the Energy Efficiency Standards of Performance scheme (1997)

Qualifications
MA Economics, University of Cambridge
BPhil Economics, University of York