Dr. David Harbord

Since founding Market Analysis in 1995, David Harbord has completed regulatory studies for the World Bank, the European Commission, the Industry Commission of Australia and the Treasury of New South Wales. He has acted as an economic adviser to the majority of telecommunications and media companies in the UK, and represented energy companies in the UK, Europe and Australia in regulatory proceedings and competition policy litigation.

He has been involved in many of the most high-profile regulatory inquiries and antitrust cases of recent years, including the Endesa/Iberdrola merger in the Spanish electricity market; the regulatory review of conditional access pricing in the UK pay-TV market; the Competition Commission's 'calls to mobiles' inquiry; the Airtours merger case; the FA Premier League's sale of television broadcasting rights; Wanadoo's margin squeeze complaint against BT in the broadband market; and Hutchison 3G's appeals of its SMP designations in the UK and Ireland.

Dr. Harbord currently advises Orange UK on its margin squeeze complaint against British Telecom and Hutchison 3G on regulatory and competition policy issues. His academic research focuses on electricity auctions, the market for sports rights, collusive access pricing agreements, and the extra-legal governance of trade agreements. He has recently published articles in the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, the RAND Journal of Economics, the Economic Journal, the International Review of Law and Economics, European Economy, the European Competition Law Review and the Electricity Journal.

Prior to taking up a career in consulting, Dr. Harbord pursued an academic career and held teaching and research positions at Bristol University, the University of Oxford, Stanford University, the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics.