Cave Review of water markets
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Martin Cave is Professor and Director of the Centre for Management under Regulation at Warwick Business School. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University. Until 2001 he was Professor of Economics and Vice-Principal at Brunel University. He specialises in regulatory economics.
He is co-author of Understanding Regulation (1999) and of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (2007), co-editor of the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2005), Digital Broadcasting (2006) and the Oxford Handbook of Regulation (forthcoming), and author of many articles in journals.
As well as his academic work he has also undertaken studies for regulators in the UK and throughout Europe. He was a member of the UK Competition Commission from 1996 to 2002. He is special adviser to European Commissioner Viviane Reding on telecommunications regulation. He has advised airport, energy, postal, telecommunications, water and other regulators throughout the world, and was a non-executive advisory director at OFWAT from 2002 to 2006.
He is responsible for two independent reviews of spectrum management carried out for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and for an independent review of the regulation of social housing for the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, published in 2007 as Every Tenant Matters.
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