Leonardo R. Giacchino, PhD

Dr. Leonardo R. Giacchino provides economic analysis and advisory services in litigation matters in the natural gas, electricity, oil, water, transport and milk industries. Over the course of more than 20 years, he has worked in more than 30 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; provided opinions on contract disputes; 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, U.S. state courts, the London Courts of International Arbitration (LCIA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the American Arbitration Association, 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, Perú, 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. (PUR), and he is currently writing, with Dr. Lesser, Principles of Utilities Corporate Finance, which will also be published by PUR.