Portrait of Irmeen Khan

Irmeen Khan Consultant

Irmeen is a member of Oxera’s Regulation and Market Design team. She specialises in public policy and impact assessment with a focus on energy and transport. Prior to joining Oxera in November 2022, she spent four years as an economist for the Government of Canada, providing strategic advice to senior civil servants, regulators and Ministers on a range of issues. This included conducting merger analysis at the Competition Bureau, working on the annual federal budget at the Department of Finance, and developing investment policy for the Canada Infrastructure Bank at the Department of Infrastructure.

Irmeen has an additional four years’ experience in data and analysis roles covering the UK and European energy and infrastructure markets. Her most recent experience was in the retail energy sector, developing cost–benefit analyses to support the smart metering roll-out in Great Britain.

Irmeen speaks English, and French.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 3839 9875

Irmeen's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Designed fare-setting options for multi-operator tickets in a UK bus market, in order to ensure better cost reflectivity in fares, while ensuring the longer-term resilience of the sector (2024)

  • In-depth review of the evidence base to underpin a future impact assessment for an offshore windfarm, including identifying impacts on all stakeholders at different levels of the value chain (2024)

  • Conducted an in-depth review of a bus authority’s business case supporting bus franchising, including identifying shortcomings in the economic, financial and commercial cases (2023–24)

  • Developed an economic framework, informed by stakeholder interviews, assessing the benefits specifically attributable to open AI foundation models for Meta (2023)

  • Developed an economic impact assessment for a real estate development, including assessing impacts on tourism, the labour market and tax revenues (2023)

  • Analysis of real price effects impacting a regulated transport company in response to the regulator’s draft determinations for the next regulatory control period (2023)

Qualifications

  • MA Economics (Economic Policy), McMaster University, Canada

  • BSocSc, Joint Honours Economics and Political Science, University of Ottawa, Canada

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