Portrait of Dr Rupert Booth

Dr Rupert Booth Senior Adviser

Rupert is a pragmatic and widely qualified economist and chartered engineer, with global experience of economic analysis and financial appraisal. He has worked for many of the world’s leading consulting and engineering firms, in the UK and overseas. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and has Masters’ degrees in competition economics (MA) and law (LLM).

He is also a qualified Better Business Case Practitioner and is a Certified Public–Private Partnerships Professional. His PhD from Warwick Business School focused on the correlation of mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical sector with firms’ comparative efficiency, as measured by Data Envelopment Analysis. His book on Activity Based Costing and cost allocation has been published in five countries, including the UK, USA and Spain.

Rupert speaks English.

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 253224

Rupert's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Dutch energy networks. Advice on the use of process benchmarking following the Authority for Consumers & Markets’ redesign of its regulatory framework (2025)

  • Wales and West Utilities. Review of cyber security and IT costs and the possibility of using bottom-up benchmarking of key support functions to argue that the costs are efficient (2025)

  • SP Energy Networks. Review of the business plans of the Gas Distribution Network companies, which were submitted for the RIIO-3 process (2025)

  • Financial Conduct Authority. Research and recommendations on multi-product pricing practices, with a focus on implication on the Consumer Duty Price and Value outcome—the ‘fair value’ rules (2025)

  • Tecban Banco24Horas. Review of the cost allocation and recharge principles for the largest interbank network in Brazil that offers 11,600 ATMs in 400 cities (2025)

  • CTT—Correios de Portugal. Review of cost allocation options for the national postal service and commercial subsidiaries operating in banking and e-commerce (2025)

Selected
publications

  • Booth, R.J. (2025), ‘Investing in distribution: ED3 and beyond’, Agenda, April.

  • Booth, R.J. (2025), ‘Boosting growth, competitiveness and productivity in the EU and UK’, Agenda, March.

  • Booth, R.J. (2025), ‘Allocation of indirect costs’, Agenda, March.

  • Booth, R.J. (2025), ‘Blending incremental costing in activity-based costing systems’, Agenda, February.

  • Booth, R.J. (2024), ‘Cost–benefit analyses for public policy, Agenda, December.

  • Booth, R.J. (2024), ‘Spatial planning: the good, the bad and the needy’, Agenda, October.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Warwick Business School, UK

  • MA Economics, Kings College London, UK

  • Master of Laws (Commercial and corporate law), University of London, UK

  • Certified Public Private Partnership Professional, APMG

  • Envision Sustainability Professional, via the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure

  • Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, Acuity Institute

Latest Insights:  Dr Rupert Booth

Agenda
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Depiction of Investment opportunities in the water sector

Investment opportunities in the water sector

A new model (Direct Procurement for Consumers, DPC), and an extension of the Specified Infrastructure Project Regulations (SIPR), are being used as a means of introducing competition into the delivery…
Agenda
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Depiction of Investing in distribution: ED3 and beyond

Investing in distribution: ED3 and beyond

In the first quarter of this year the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC)1 published its vision for the UK’s electricity distribution network. Below, we review this in the context of Ofgem’s…
Agenda
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Depiction of Boosting growth, competitiveness and productivity in the EU and UK

Boosting growth, competitiveness and productivity in the EU and UK

Low economic growth is a current challenge for most major European economies, especially given the new fiscal burden of increased defence spending. Funding social challenges—such as climate change, the digital…
Agenda
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Depiction of Allocation of indirect costs

Allocation of indirect costs

There is no right or wrong way to allocate indirect costs, only good or bad ways of supporting policy objectives, either of the company itself or an industry regulator or…
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