Chien is a member of Oxera’s Transport, Analytics and Impact Assessment teams. He has extensive experience working in the aviation sector, on environmental issues and impact assessment. He has an in-depth understanding of the aviation sector, having worked on a number of high-profile cases, such as the merger between Air Canada and Air Transat, providing advice to hub airports on abuse of dominance issues and airline state aid issues arising as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chien is experienced in providing cutting-edge analytics, having developed Oxera’s extensive dataset of airline fares and emissions based on Google Flights data. As part of other work he has done, Chien has also submitted compelling and influential analysis to regulators and competition authorities in the context of the price appeals of regulated utilities.
Chien joined Oxera in 2018 after completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Cambridge, focusing on econometrics and industrial organisation. In his previous work, Chien worked in the research department of a commercial bank, where he used time series techniques to forecast macroeconomic variables to predict turning points in business cycles.
Chien speaks English.
Tel: +44 (0) 1865 253025