Dieter Helm is an economist, specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrates on the energy,water and transport sectors in Britain and Europe. He is Professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. He holds a number of advisory board appointments, including Chairman of the Academic Panel, Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He was a member of the DTI Sustainable Energy Policy Advisory Board, 2002-2007 and of the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology, 2004-2007. He is associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. His career to date has spanned academia, public policy and business. He founded OXERA in 1982, was a member of the DTI's Energy Advisory Panel from 1993-2003, and has published extensively on economic topics. He recently completed a major study of British Energy policy since 1979 Energy, The State and the Market, published by Oxford University Press.