Profile

Robert Pritchard is managing director of ResourcesLaw International and executive director of the Energy Policy Institute of Australia.

ResourcesLaw International is an Australian-based consultancy which provides specialist advisory services to governments and corporations on:

• energy law and policy
• energy projects, project financing and risk management
• energy industry reform and regulation.

ResourcesLaw International is affiliated with the Australian law firm Piper Alderman, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Robert Pritchard is the editor of "Economic Development, Foreign Investment and the Law", published by the International Bar Association and Kluwer Law International, London 1996.

Since 2001, Robert has been a consultant to the APEC Energy Working Group on a number of international studies. These have included Cross-Border Power (2001/2002), Electricity Industry Reform (2002/2003) and Cross-Border Gas Pipelines and LNG Projects (2004).

In 2000/2001, Robert chaired the World Energy Council study on "Electricity Market Creation in Asia Pacific". In 2001/2002, he was a consultant to the APEC Energy Working Group on Cross-Border Power and on Micro-Economic Reform of the Electricity Industry. In 2004, he was a consultant to APEC on Cross-Border Natural Gas Trade. In 2005, he was a consultant to APEC on Energy Security.