Professor Henry Ergas AO

M.Ec.Stud (High Distinction), University of Queensland

BA (Econ) (First Class Honours), Sussex University

Officer of the Order of Australia, 26 January 2016 ' For distinguished service to infrastructure economics, and to higher education, to public policy development and review, and as a supporter of emerging artists. '

Current positions

• Professor of Infrastructure Economics, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong
• Senior Economic Adviser, Deloitte Australia

Previous appointments

• 2008-2009 - Chairman, Concept Economics
• 2004-2007 - Vice President and Regional Head, Asia Pacific, CRA International
• 1996-2004 - Managing Director, Network Economics Consulting Group (NEGG) Australia
• 1995-1997 - BellSouth NZ Visiting Professor of Network Economics and Communications, University of Auckland
• 1994-1995 - Visiting Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
• 1993-1997 - Advisor, Trade Practices Commission, Canberra
• 1991-1993 - Counsellor for Structural Policy, Economics Department, OECD, Paris
• 1987-1991 - Professor, Graduate School of Management, Monash University
• 1978-1987 - Administrator/Principal Administrator/Counsellor, OECD, Paris and Head of Secretary-General's Task Force on Structural Adjustment

Other appointments

• 2012 - Member, Austrlaian Urban Research Infrastructure Network Expert Lens Group 6
• 2012 - Member, Deakin Policy Forum Advisory Council
• 2010 - Lay Member, New Zealand High Court
• 2007 - Adjunct Professor, Monash University
• 2004 - Adjunct Professor, School of Economics, National University of Singapore
• 2004 - Member, Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics (ACORE) Advisory Board
• 2004 - Member, French Ordre Nationale du Merite
• 2002 - Editorial Board, The Review of Netowrk Economics
• 2009: Editorial Board, Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier
• 2006: Member, Defence Industry Consultative Group reporting to Australian Minister for Defence
• 2005: Member, Prime Minister's Taskforce on Exports and Infrastructure
• 2001: Lay Member, New Zealand High Court
• 1999-2000 - Chairman, Intellectual Property and Competition Review Committee, AG's Department, Australia
• 1998-2004 - Member, Commissione Scientifica, Telecom Italia, Rome, Italy
• 1997: Member, Advisory Panel on Telecommunications Reform to the Minister for Communications and the Arts, Australia

• Forthcoming

Articles

• Henry Ergas, 'Why Johnny Can't Regulate: The Case of Natural Monopoly' (2013) 20(1) Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform
• Henry Ergas, 'Utility Regulation in Competitive Markets: Problems and Progress' (2010) 86(275) (December) Economic Record
• Henry Ergas, Emma Lanigan, Eric Kodjo Ralph, ‘Price Squeezes and Vertical Discrimination on Next Generation Access Networks’ (2010) (SSRN)
• Henry Ergas, Eric Kodjo Ralph and Alex Robson, 'The ACCC Merger Guidelines: A reader's manual' (2009) 17 Competition and Consumer Law Journal 192
• Henry Ergas, Eric Kodjo Ralph and Alex Robson, The ACCC Merger Guidelines: A Review, 23 June 2009 (at SSRN http://ssrn.com/abstract=1424721)
• Henry Ergas ,'An Excess of Access' (2009) 16(4) Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform
• Henry Ergas, 'Error and Design: Economics in (and some Economics of) the Australian Competition Tribunal' (2009) 16(3) Agenda: A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform
• Henry Ergas, 'Are the ACCC's Merger Guidelines Too Strict? A Critical Review of the Industry Commission's Information Paper on Merger Regulation' (The Centre for Research in Network Economics and Communications)
• Henry Ergas and Mitchell Landrigan 'Not another article about Section 46 of the Trade Practices Act' (2004) 32(6) Australian Business Law Review 415-435
• Henry Ergas, 'Stirling Harbour Services v Sunbury Port Authority: A Review of Some Economic Issues' (2002) 10(1) Competition & Consumer Law Journal 27-41.

Opinion pieces

See generally Green Whiskers' competition policy page

• Ergas, 'Federal election 2016: evidence doesn’t justify more regulation' (The Australian, 30 May 2016)

More Forthcoming