Rafael Emmanual Macatangay, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor

Biography

Dr Macatangay is currently Regulatory Economist at the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (“PUCN”) in the US. He has provided oral and written testimony at proceedings of the PUCN and the US Court of Federal Claims in Washington DC. Prior to the PUCN, he was a tenured academic at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy ("CEPMLP"), University of Dundee, Scotland UK. He had done research projects funded by the UK Department for International Development, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, and the Energy Technology Partnership (Scotland). His research papers on law and economics have been published in academic journals, scholarly books, and trade periodicals. He had taught postgraduate modules on the electric power sector, numerical methods (including statistics and optimisation), energy commodity trading, real options analysis, and contemporary energy issues. Prior to CEPMLP, he had worked on the trading floor of electric utility holding company NV Energy Inc. in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has done consulting projects funded by governments, international development agencies, global energy companies, and professional services firms. He has worked at the California and Washington DC offices of boutique consulting firm Economists Incorporated (now Secretariat Economists); the Silicon Valley office of LCG Consulting, an international software company producing energy market optimisation tools; and the San Francisco office of Deloitte and Touche LLP, a global consulting firm. He wrote a Ph.D. thesis on electricity markets in England and Wales at the University of Manchester, UK and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California Energy Institute, Berkeley. He is Honorary Lecturer at CEPMLP. He maintains a strong interest in electric power, natural gas, water, and related commodities across the cognate areas of risk management, competition and regulation, and natural resource policy.

Contact:

rafael.e.macatangay@durham.ac.uk