Stephen Gibson
Biography
Stephen has over 30 years’ experience working as a professional economist across a range of regulated sectors including post, water, rail, aviation, ports, energy and telecoms. He is a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Business and Government at Harvard University and also a Senior Fellow at LSE. He is a member of the Bank of England’s Cost-Benefit Analysis panel and was a member of the CAA’s expert advisory panel on airport regulation.
In 2011 Stephen set up SLG Economics, a consultancy providing expert regulatory and competition economics advice to regulators, regulated companies and consumer bodies. He has been:
- Interim Chief Economist at Ofwat;
- Senior Advisor to CAA and ORR;
- Chief Economist and Director of Economic Policy at Postcomm;
- Principal Economist at Ofcom;
- Senior Consultant at NERA Economic Consulting;
- Head of Economics at Network Rail; and
- Competition Policy Analyst at Royal Mail.
He is a lecturer in microeconomics at Birkbeck university and previously lectured at City university.
Stephen holds no other public appointments and has not undertaken any party political activity.
Chair, Regulatory Policy Committee
The Regulatory Policy Committee consists of 8 independent experts with experience and current knowledge of business, employee, consumer and economics issues. Members were appointed after an open competition which followed the Commissioner for Public Appointments’ code of practice.