Janice A. Beecher, Ph.D. Resume. Janice A. Beecher has served as Director of the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University since 2002. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in public utility regulation and is responsible for Institute development, program management, and interdisciplinary research in support of the IPU’s mission of service to the regulatory policy community. Dr. Beecher’s appointment is in the College of Social Science at MSU, where she has taught graduate courses in public policy and regulation. Her areas of interest include regulatory theory, institutions, and policy; comparative industry analysis; and utility pricing and rate design. She has particular expertise in the structure, economics, and regulation of the water industry. Dr. Beecher is a frequent lecturer and the author of several research reports and other publications; she has also testified before regulatory and legislative bodies. Her work has been recognized through a number of research grants and special appointments. Prior to joining the IPU, Dr. Beecher was an independent policy consultant and held senior research and adjunct faculty positions at The Ohio State University and Indiana University. She also worked as a staff policy advisor to the chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. She has a B.A. in Economics, Political Science, and History from Elmhurst College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, where she completed a dissertation on public utility regulation.

Ligita Nelson, Administrative Assistant. Ligita has been a part of MSU staff since 2008, and joined Institute of Public Utilities in June of 2011. Ligita received her B.A and M.A. in Linguistics from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. She is fluent in English, Lithuanian and Russian, as well as good knowledge of Polish language.

William Knudson, is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. He was previously a Policy Advisor the Michigan Senate Majority Policy Office where he conducted analysis and advised senators on agricultural and high education issues. He is a member of the American Agricultural Economics Association, received his B.A. in Economics from California State University, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.

Kenneth Rose, Ph.D., Senior Fellow. Dr. Kenneth Rose is an independent consultant and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University. Dr. Rose is a nationally recognized expert with more than twenty years of research experience in the structure, economics, and regulation of U.S. electricity markets. Dr. Rose's areas of expertise include electricity wholesale and retail market restructuring, market power, and market monitoring. Other research topics have included competitive bidding for power supply, regulatory treatment of uneconomic costs, Clean Air Act implementation, environmental externalities associated with electricity production, and other issues associated with the electricity industry and its regulation. Dr. Rose has directed or contributed to many reports, papers, articles, and books and has testified or presented at many legislative and public utility commission hearings, proceedings, conferences, and workshops. Dr. Rose previously was a Senior Institute Economist at The National Regulatory Research Institute at The Ohio State University from 1989 to 2002 and also a lecturer for the School of Public Policy and Management at OSU. Prior to NRRI, Dr. Rose worked on many energy related issues at Argonne National Laboratory from 1984 to 1989. Dr. Rose received his B.S. (1981), M.A. (1983), and Ph.D. (1988) in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Joydeep Mitra, Senior Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Joydeep Mitra joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering as an Associate Professor. Prior to this appointment he held academic positions at New Mexico State University and North Dakota State University, and was a senior consulting engineer with LCG Consulting, Los Altos, Calif. He acquired his PhD in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, and his bachelor’s degree, also in electrical engineering, from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests include power system reliability and security, and distributed and renewable energy resource planning. He has received research support from electric utilities, Sandia National Laboratories, the Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation, including an NSF CAREER Award. He is a senior member of the IEEE and contributes to the Power and Energy Society, the Industrial Applications Society, and the Standards Association.

Jon Bartholic, Faculty Associate. Director, Institute of Water Research, Michigan State University. He is also a Professor in the Department of Resource Development. Prof. Bartholic has directed water quality and land use studies at regional, state, county and local watershed levels. He continues to work closely with MSU colleagues, multiple federal and state agencies and organizations on water quality and quantity issues, and land use and whole-farm planning from a watershed perspective. Most recently he has been working with others to develop an accessible integrated environmental information web-based system including RS-GIS technologies to aid users in making sound environmental, resource, and land use decisions. Prof. Bartholic has contributed significantly to the design and implementation of a highly successful series of MSU Virtual University Watershed Courses. He earned his bachelor's degree in soil science from Michigan State University and his doctorate in soil physics from South Dakota State University.

Johannes M. Bauer, Ph.D., Senior Fellow. Professor Bauer is on the faculty of the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University and Director of Special Programs at MSU's James H. and Mary B. Quello Center for Telecommunications Management and Law. Prof. Bauer is also a former director of the Institute of Public Utilities. His research interests include the economics and regulation of public utility and infrastructure industries, the design of regulatory incentives and institutions, the globalization of network-based industries in the energy and telecommunications sectors, the economics of public enterprise, and the processes of regional economic integration in North America, Europe, and Asia. Professor Bauer writes, lectures, and consults frequently in the U.S. and Europe. He holds a M.A. and Ph.D. (economics), Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria.

Ken Boyer, Faculty Associate. Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. B.A. (economics), Amherst College, Ph.D. (economics), University of Michigan. His primary research interests are in the economics of transportation and the economics of regulation. He is a 1979 winner of the Michigan State University teacher-scholar award and has taught at the Sino-American Training Center in Shanghai, China and the University of Michigan as well as at Michigan State University. He has conducted research on regulation and transportation in Western Europe, and is currently a member of two committees of the National Academy of Sciences. His textbook, Principles of Transportation Economics, was published in 1997. Prof. Boyer is the former Chair of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association.

Adam Candeub, Senior Fellow. Prof. Candeub joined the MSU Law faculty in the Fall of 2004. Prior to this position, he was an attorney-advisor for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the Media Bureau and previously in the Common Carrier Bureau, Competitive Pricing Division. His work at the FCC involved him in critical decisions in communications law. He is well published in numerous law reviews. In addition to his scholarship and interest in criminal law and philosophy, Prof. Candeub has developed an impressive expertise in communications, administrative and antitrust law as well as an extensive background in economics. He teaches courses in the Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program. Prof. Candeub received his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1995) and his B.A. from Yale University (1990).

Stephen Gasteyer, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Prof. Gasteyer researches the structures and processes that influence community level access to critical natural resources and capacity to manage those resources. Relatedly, he applies a systematic analysis to understanding community leadership and economic development decision making. His research focuses on the US, the Middle East and West Africa. Before coming to Michigan State University, Prof. Gasteyer was on faculty in the Department of Human and Community Development (HCD) at University of Illinois. Prior to that, he was Research and Policy Director at the Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) in Washington, DC and a research consultant on issues of global water governance. Prof. Gasteyer was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from 1987 through 1990, and worked from 1993 through 1998 in the Palestinian territories. He received a BA from Earlham College in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Iowa State University in 2001.

Douglas Jones, Faculty Associate (External). Dr. Douglas N. Jones is the Harold L. and Audrey P. Enarson Professor (Emeritus) of Public Policy & Management at The Ohio State University and has been a member of the faculty since 1978. He was also the founding director of the National Regulatory Research Institute and served in that role from 1978 to 1998. His fields of specialization are public utility and antitrust economics, economic development, privatization, and public budgeting. He publishes mainly in the field of regulatory economics, deregulation and privatization. His international consulting has been with Canada, Costa Rica, Argentina, Bolivia, and Egypt. After earning a Ph.D. in economics from The Ohio State University he was a professor of economics at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Chief Economist on the President’s Committee for Developing Alaska, and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce for Regional Economic Development. He also worked on the congressional staff from 1969 to 1978, first as Legislative Assistant to a U.S. Senator, then as Assistant Chief, Economics Division of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.

J.Robert Malko, Faculty Associate (External). Prof. Malko is a Professor of Finance in the College of Business at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He currently serves as Vice President of the Society of Utility and Regulatory Financial Analysts, previously serving as President. He has served on the advisory boards of the Center for Public Utilities and the National Regulatory Research Institute. He has also served as Chair of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association. Earlier, Prof. Malko served as Chief Economist at the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin and was an active member of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. He has consulted extensively and appeared as an expert witness before several regulatory commissions. He has written approximately 150 articles on public utility economics and finance, and also edited a number of books. Prof. Malko received the B.S. degree with honors in mathematics and economics from Loyola College (Baltimore, Maryland) and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University. He is also a Certified Rate of Return Analyst.

Steven Miller, Faculty Associate. Steven Miller specializes in applied economic methods for forecasting and impact analysis. As a graduate, Steven maintained and programmed the Oklahoma State University Econometric Forecasting model and served as investigator on several Oklahoma Department of Human Resources studies of TANF funding, as well as child support studies for impact and needs assessments. He has produced numerous impact assessments of Wichita, Kansas area businesses seeking state and local sponsored incentives, produced papers on aviation demand across competing regional airports, and papers on alternative estimation methods of systems modeling.

Harry Trebing, Ph.D., Professor of Economics Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University; Adjunct Professor (Economics), New Mexico State University. Prof. Trebing founded the Institute and served as its director from 1966 to 1991, having responsibility for organizing and administering all education programs sponsored by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). He served as Chief Economist for both the U.S. Postal Rate Commission and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. He also served on advisory panels for the Congressional Office Technology Assessment, General Accounting Office, U.S. Comptroller General, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Regulator Research Institute. He is past president of the Association for Evolutionary Economic and recipient of the Veblen-Commons Award. In addition, he is apast chairman of the Transportation and Public Utilities Group of the American Economic Association. He has authored numerous publications dealing with public utility regulation and received a National Science Foundation grant to study regulatory reform in energy utilities. He is a recipient of several distinguished service awards. Prof. Trebing currently serves as a Governor-appointed member of the Michigan Utility Consumer Participation Board. He holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.