DT Economics welcomes David Gough as Senior Advisor. David is Director of DG Regulatory Finance Ltd and brings over 25 years of experience advising regulators and regulated companies across water, energy, transport and communications on regulatory accounting, cost allocation and price control matters. Earlier in his career, David held senior regulatory finance roles at BT. He has since advised Ofcom, Ofgem, the CAA and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in Ireland, as

DT Economics is pleased to welcome Tom James as Senior Advisor. A chartered accountant and economist with over 35 years in regulatory finance and telecoms costing, Tom was formerly Head of Regulatory Finance at BT Group, where he led the team responsible for regulatory reporting and cost allocation across BT's network businesses. Tom's deep understanding of regulatory accounting frameworks and his experience engaging with Ofcom on costing and pricing matters make him a valuab

Small nation regulators face a distinctive set of pressures that rarely feature in mainstream regulatory economics literature. The frameworks developed by Ofcom, the FCA or the European Commission assume deep specialist capacity, stable long-term funding and a regulator that can afford, when necessary, to go to court. For the national regulatory authorities (NRAs) of small nations such as Jersey, the Cayman Islands, Mauritius or Trinidad and Tobago, none of those assumptions