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Leonardo R. Giacchino, Ph.D., provides economic analysis and advisory services in litigation matters in the natural gas,
electricity, oil, water, and transport industries. Over the course of more than 20 years, he has worked in more than 25
countries on over 100 projects that have addressed economic and regulatory issues for U.S. and international businesses,
investors, governments, and organizations. He has helped negotiate tariff adjustments and regulatory reform with
politicians and regulators; performed tariff, pricing, and cost studies; calculated damages and compensation estimates;
developed business plans for new regulatory agencies in several countries; conducted due diligence and feasibility
studies for power plants, utilities, and pipelines; and developed network models for the energy industry.
Dr. Giacchino has provided testimony in numerous forums; these include FERC, U.S. federal district court, the London
Courts of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and
the International Arbitral Center of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber. He has participated in proceedings before
public utility commissions in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the United States.
Dr. Giacchino taught economics at Duke University and at Universidad Católica Argentina. He was Vice President
at NERA, where he provided economic analysis and advisory services to regulated markets. He served as Senior Economist
at one private oil and gas company in Argentina and worked at another. In his work at the oil and gas companies, he
coordinated project evaluations of oil field auctions, renegotiated contracts with the state owned companies, directed
research in international energy markets, and participated in planning for the deregulation of energy markets in
Argentina.
He has an extensive background in microeconomics, regulation, finance, modeling, econometrics, international trade
and finance, and macroeconomics. He is the coauthor (with Dr. Jonathan Lesser) of
Fundamentals of Energy Regulation, which was published
in 2007 by Public Utilities Reports, Inc.
Ph.D., Economics, Duke University; M.A., Economics,
Duke University; B.A., Economics, Universidad Católica
Argentina
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