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Tiaan Meiring Consultant

Tiaan is a member of Oxera’s Regulation & Market Design, Energy, and Water teams. He has experience in both regulatory and competition matters across various jurisdictions in Europe, Africa and the UK. He has advised both regulated companies and regulators, and his experience spans various sectors including energy, water, telecoms, transport and financial services.

Before joining Oxera in 2022, Tiaan worked as a consultant at Africa’s largest economics-based consulting firm, advising decision-makers across public, private and non-government spheres, primarily on matters of economic regulation and competition disputes. Earlier roles include being a researcher at a development economics unit at the University of Cape Town, as well as economic policy work at a think tank.

Tiaan graduated with an Master’s in Economics from the University of Cape Town in 2020, where he specialised in applied microeconomics.

Tiaan speaks English, and Afrikaans.

Tel: +32 (0) 2 882 50 25

Tiaan's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Ongoing advice and cost-assessment modelling for several water companies in the UK for the regulator’s (Ofwat) ongoing price methodology review for the 2025–30 period (2022–)

  • Ongoing cost-assessment advice to a Belgian electricity and gas distribution company in light of the regulator’s pricing methodology review for the upcoming regulatory period (2023–)

  • Assessment for the German Insurance Association on payment models for the distribution of financial advice, in light of the EU-wide Retail Investment Strategy (2023–)

  • Advice to the domestic gas supplier Sasol during various disputes centring on the appropriate methodology for gas price regulation in South Africa (2022)

  • Economic impact study for South Africa’s national electricity utility, Eskom, for its multi-year tariff application to the national electricity regulator (2022)

  • Elasticity study for Eskom on the demand responsiveness of its various consumer groups to changes in electricity prices and income levels (a necessary input for the its tariff application) (2022)

Qualifications

  • MCom Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

  • BA (Hons) Economics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

  • BA Politics, Philosophy and Economics, North-West University (Potchefstroom), South Africa

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