Economics: Meet the team

David Lancefield

Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 2263, Email David Lancefield

David shapes the strategic and commercial decisions taken by companies in the context of growth, restructuring and regulation. He focuses on the media and entertainment sector, working with organisations to transform their organisation and services for the digital age. He also leverages perspectives from one sector to others having advised companies in health, energy, transport and financial services.

David has recently worked with large media organisations to deliver strategy formulation and organisation restructuring around digital ventures and mobile TV, forecast of TV advertising revenues and the assessment of impact of advertising on brand values. He has also worked on regulatory issues such state aid (on the interface of public and commercial bodies), competition issues, music licensing, media ownership rules, public funding of content, and digital TV and radio switchover.

Tim Ogier

Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 5207, Email Tim Ogier

Tim uses his expertise in economic analysis to advise clients around competition enquiries, responding to regulation proceedings, financial economics, contract negotiations, arbitration and litigation.

Tim has worked with clients in a variety of sectors across a wide range of business issues including advising the Office of Fair Trading on competition inquiries, helping regulated businesses respond to regulatory proceedings, including price determinations and acting as an expert in contract negotiations, arbitration and litigation.

Alastair Macpherson

Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 1650, Email Alastair Macpherson

Alastair leads our International Telecommunications Regulatory Centre of Excellence. He specialises in the provision of regulatory policy, economic and strategic advice to the telecoms sector.

Alastair’s recent projects include advising regulated operators on telecommunications operators being considered by Government and Regulatory Authority, helping telecoms operators with a particular interest in broadband roll-out meet Universal Service Obligations, and developing legislative and regulatory frameworks for the communications sector in developing markets.

Mark Hughes

Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 4463, Email Mark Hughes

Mark focuses on providing advice to our utilities clients around strategy and transactions, industry re-structuring, contract and trading arrangements, corporate and project finance and auctions for selling energy.

Mark has worked with a range of energy clients on strategic and market analysis, trading and contracting, regulation and performance benchmarking, privatisation and methodology for auctioning commodities.

John Hawksworth

Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 1650, Email John Hawksworth

John is Chief Economist for the UK and editor of the Economic Outlook publication, and many other reports and articles on macroeconomic and fiscal policy issues. He has over 20 years of experience as an economics consultant to leading public and private sector organisations, both in the UK and overseas. He has worked with several UK think tanks including the Institute for Public Policy Research (on pensions, state enterprise reform, social housing and public-private partnerships) and the Social Market Foundation (on the case for universal pre-school childcare), and with many academic economists and sector specialists.

Andrew Sentance

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7213 2068, Email Andrew Sentance

Andrew Sentance is Senior Economic Adviser to PwC. He joined the firm in November 2011 after serving as an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England.

After studying at Cambridge and the LSE, Andrew started his career as a business economist at the Confederation of British Industry in the mid-1980s before moving to the London Business School in 1994. While at the CBI, he was a founder member of the Treasury’s Panel of Independent Forecasters - also known as the "seven wise men". Immediately before joining the Bank of England, Andrew was Chief Economist at British Airways, where he also worked on business strategy and planning, airport policy, airport regulation and environmental affairs.

Andrew is a part-time Professor at Warwick Business School, a visiting professor at Royal Holloway, London, and is a Fellow and former Chairman of the Society of Business Economists.

Mark Graham

Tel: +44(0)131 260 4054, Email Mark Graham

Mark works at the interface between the public and private sectors in relation to fund raising, programme and project management and strategic evaluations.

Mark helps voluntary sector organisations to develop plans for funding support, raise funds, implement activities and evaluate impacts. Mark also works with government departments to consider innovative funding strategies, including Scottish Enterprise, the Big Lottery, English Partnerships, and sportscotland.

Mark leads our work in the measurement of social impacts and the development of social impact bonds and has worked with a range of organisations in assessing their impacts including voluntary bodies such as SPARK, the School of Social Entrepreneurs and a range of private sector clients such as British Land, Anglo American and Puma.

Nick Forrest

Tel: +44 (0)20 7213 1650, Email Nick Forrest

Nick specialises in economic and financial analysis in competition, regulatory, valuation, strategy and public policy assignments. His expertise lies in financial economics and understanding the cost of capital, risk and profitability, analysing the cost, benefits and overall impact of banking reform, credit pricing and supply of lending to businesses.

Nick has recently worked with large retail and consumer banks to conduct an impact analysis of banking regulatory reform, to dispute a quantification of cost of equity and to provide international cost of capital rates.

Edward Bramley-Harker

Tel: + 44 (0)20 7804 5684, Email Edward Bramley-Harker

Ed focuses on the application of economics to healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, including economic evaluation, market analysis and econometrics.

Ed has recently worked with hospitals to analyse cost functions, with regulators to assess and reform tariff regulations, delivered cost analysis to inform negotiations about fees for community pharmacists and dispensing doctors, and looked at competitive neutrality issues in public sector procurement. Ed also leads our Ageing research for the Public Sector Research Centre.

Daniel Hanson

Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 5774, Email Daniel Hanson

Daniel leads our work at the interface of competition economics and regulation. He has advised on issues in most sectors of the economy but has particular expertise in financial services and transport. His clients have included a wide range of companies, regulators, investors and Government departments in the UK and overseas. He has a particular focus on leveraging insights from one sector to another. He generally advises clients in the context of disputes, transactions and situations which involve substantial change. 

His key recent assignments include having advised on the dispute between the OFT and the banks in relation to Unauthorised Overdraft Charges, the design of the regulatory framework for High Speed 1, and a dispute between a major transport hub and its customers.

Mark Ambler

Tel: +44 (0)20 7804 5207, Email Mark Ambler

Mark works primarily in our public policy evaluation and impact assessment teams. He has advised a number of government departments on project, policy and programme evaluations, economic impact analysis, regulation and valuation.

Most recently, Mark helped the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills develop an evaluation strategy for their regulatory responsibilities, and with the London Development Agency to evaluate the impact of their 2012 related investments.

Andrew Thurley

Tel: +44 (0)20 7212 6503, Email Andrew Thurley

Andrew leads the firm’s public sector sustainability work. Andrew has specialist expertise in sustainability strategy; economic regeneration studies; financial and economic appraisal of investments; project and programme evaluations; business planning and market studies; project financing; economic valuation of fixed assets; socio-economic impact assessments; property development appraisals and environmental economics.

Recently Andrew worked with the Environment Agency to develop a long term investment strategy for its flood and coastal erosion risk management activities.

Michael Hardt

Tel: +44(0) 20 7804 3112, Email Michael Hardt

Michael’s principle area of focus is on telecoms regulation. He works with clients to advise them on sector policy and regulatory framework design, competition analysis and formulation of remedies, price regulation and pricing strategy and efficiency analysis.

Most recently, Michael worked on a sector policy and competition regulation project for regulators across the Middle East and Africa, and the implementation of Universal Service for a number of telecoms operators.

Esmond Birnie

Tel: +44 (0)28 9041 5808, Email Esmond Birnie

Esmond is Chief Economist in Northern Ireland (with an additional focus on the Scottish and other “UK regional” economies). He is editor of the Northern Ireland Economic Outlook and author of many reports and articles on aspects of thought leadership. He joined the firm in January 2010 after 25 years of public policy experience (as a Special Adviser, Member of a devolved Assembly and as a university lecturer in economics). Esmond has worked with a range of private and public sector clients across the UK on issues such evaluating government budgets, the efficiency of pharmacies and options for social care for the elderly.