coll. - The Economic Regulation of Airports: Recent Developments in Australasia, North America and Europe

Doug Andrew is Lead Infrastructure Specialist of the World Bank. He was Group Director of Economic Regulation at the UK Civil Aviation Authority, a founding commissioner of Eurocontrol's Performance Review Commission and a member of Eurocontrol's Regulatory Committee. Previously, he was deputy secretary in charge of regulation and tax policy in the New Zealand Treasury, and was educated at Princeton and Auckland Universities. In addition to his career in the New Zealand Treasury he had secondments as economic adviser to the New Zealand leader of the opposition (David Lange) and to the World Bank in the Australian Executive Director's Office.

Bernhard Duijm has been a lecturer in Economic Policy at the University of Tubingen since 1996. His current position is Temporary Professor of Economics. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Tbingen in 1990. Research interests include competition policy in European integration, interdependence of competition policy and international trade policy, and the institutional design of competition and regulation authorities.

Peter Forsyth has been Professor of Economics at Monash University, Australia since 1997. Prior to this he held posts at Australian National University and the University of New England. He holds degrees form the University of Sydney and the University of Oxford. He has specialised in the economics of transport, especially aviation, privatisation and regulation, and the economics of tourism. Most recently, he has been paying particular attention to the privatisation and regulation of airports, and to the use of computable general equilibrium models in evaluating the economic impacts of tourism. He has recently published an edited volume of classic articles on the economics of air transport (Edward Elgar).

David W. Gillen is Professor in the School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He also holds the position of Visiting Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Research Economist, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California-Berkeley. He obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Toronto in 1975. He has held positions at the University of Alberta, University of British Columbia and Queen's University. He has published over 60 articles and 15 books in the areas of transportation economics, transportation management, industrial organisation and management strategy. His current research covers airline strategies, airport performance measurement and strategy, network economics and competition issues in airlines and airports.

Anne Graham is Senior Lecturer in Air Transport and Tourism at the University of Westminster. She has specialised in the research, consultancy and teaching of airport economics and management for over 15 years.

Cathal Guiomard is an economist and Head of Economic Affairs at the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation (www.aviationreg.ie). Previously, he worked for the Irish Central Bank, and as a member of the Economics Department of University College Dublin.

Nienke Hendriks is Senior Price Control Review Manager at Ofgem (the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets) and currently works on the Electricity Distribution Price Review. Previously, she worked as economic policy analyst at the UK Civil Aviation Authority. She holds an MSc in Economics and Finance (Warwick Business School).

Oliver Hogan is with the Irish Commission for Aviation Regulation. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, where he studied economics to Masters Degree level, he was previously employed as an economist with the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation (ODTR), Dublin from 1999-2001.

Thomas Immelmann is Director of Corporate Communications, Marketing and Sales at Hamburg Airport since 1997. Before that he was Director of Strategic Planning & Product Management of the German Airline LTU Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH & Co. KG in Dsseldorf, and Vice Director Public Relations and Manager Environmental Affairs for LTU.