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Home > Contributing Author

Dr. Jeff D. Makholm

J.D. Makholm
Dr. Jeff D. Makholm
NERA Economic Consulting

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Dr. Makholm specializes in the economics of regulated infrastructure industries in the energy (electricity, gas, and petroleum products), transportation (pipelines, railroads, and airports), water, and telecommunications sectors. He has directed projects on competition, pricing, financing, privatization, and industrial development for many utilities and other infrastructure businesses in the US and more than 20 other countries. Dr Makholm was commended in Who's Who Legal Arbitration Expert Witness Guide 2016 for his appearances as an expert witness in LCIA and ICSID cases.

In the US, Dr. Makholm has directed cases regarding tariffs, cost of capital, regulation, planning, competition, and restructuring for regulated businesses in many state and federal regulatory jurisdictions. Beyond the US, he has assisted regulated industries, governments, and the World Bank with regulatory laws, proposed financing plans, and the pre-privatization restructuring of regulated businesses.

Dr. Makholm has provided expert testimony and reports on over 150 occasions for electricity companies, gas distributors, gas and oil pipeline companies, or regulatory bodies involved in administrative, civil, and international arbitration cases concerning competition and market power, tariff design, financing, and cost of capital. He has appeared as an expert witness before numerous regulatory bodies and parliamentary panels abroad, including before the LCIA and the ICSID.

He participated in key hearings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which led to US gas and electricity industry restructuring. He has also testified on market and regulatory issues before the Supreme Court in Victoria, Australia and before the High Court and Parliament in New Zealand.

In addition, Dr. Makholm participated in key gas industry reforms in Europe, where he directed three major restructuring projects. In Central and South America, he worked to reform and structure efficient and competitive gas industries. On behalf of the World Bank, Dr. Makholm led the first group of Western economists to China to study and recommend reforms to that country's extensive gas industry. He has also been heavily involved in the restructuring, pricing, and privatization of the gas and pipeline industries in New Zealand, Australia, Russia, and a number of Asian countries.

Education

  • PhD and MA in economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison
    (major field of industrial organization and minor field of econometrics/public economics; dissertation titled "Sources of Total Factor Productivity in the Electric Utility Industry")
  • MA and BA in economics, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Practice Areas

  • Commercial Litigation and Damages
  • Energy
  • International Arbitration
  • Regulatory Economics
  • Survey Research, Design, and Analysis
  • Transport
  • Valuation
  • Water

OGEL Articles

Article(s) by this author:
(Most recent first)

Gas Wars in Ukraine Illustrate Europe's Vulnerability to Russian Energy Dominance

International Oil, Gas & Energy Dispute Management
OGEL 5 (2018)

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Estimating Fair Market Value of Nigerian Petroleum Assets: A Risk-Based Approach

2 Feb 2021

K.I. Ojukwu, O. Iledare, J.A. Ajienka, A. Dosunmu, A.C. Ibe

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Good Oil, Clean Waters? Ghana's Oil Decade and Environmental Protection

16 Dec 2020

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The Hydrogen Hope? Challenges and Opportunities for an Australian Hydrogen Industry

15 Dec 2020

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