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INSTITUTE PEOPLE
Janice A. Beecher, Ph.D.
Resume. Dr. Beecher is the Director of the Institute of
Public Utilities at Michigan State University. She has 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. Her areas
of interest include regulatory theory, institutions, and policy; regulatory ethics; incentives,
pricing, and rate design; commission organization and demographics; and comparative utility industry
analysis. Dr. Beecher is a frequent lecturer and the author of several research reports and other
publications. Prior to joining the IPU, she was an independent policy consultant and she also held
senior research and adjunct faculty positions at the Ohio State University and Indiana University.
She worked on staff as a policy advisor to the Chairman of the Illinois Commerce Commission. Dr.
Beecher has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University and adjunct appointments at
MSU in Political Science and Economics; she teaches graduate courses in public policy and regulation
in the Master of Public Policy Program.
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 Executive Director of 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 consultants 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.
Joydeep Mitra,
Faculty Associate. Joydeep Mitra, 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.
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 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.
Jon
Bartholic, Faculty Associate. Director, Institute of Water Research,
Michigan State University. Prof. Bartholic 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.
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, Professor 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).
Harry
Trebing, Ph.D., Professor of Economics Emeritus and Director Emeritus
of the Institute of Public Utilities, Michigan State University; and
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 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 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 and
also past 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. Prof. Trebing holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University
of Maryland and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.
Ken
Boyer, Faculty Associate . Kenneth D. Boyer, 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.
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, and 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.
Stephen Gasteyer, Faculty Associate. Stephen Gasteyer, assistant professor of
Sociology, researches the structures and processes that influence community level
access to critical natural resources and capacity to manage those resources.
Relatedly, he also applies a systems analysis to understanding community leadership
and economic development decision making. His research focuses on the US, Middle East
and West Africa. Before coming to Michigan State University, 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. Gasteyer was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali from 1987 through 1990, and
worked from 1993 through 1998 in the Palestinian territories. Stephen 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, Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce for
Regional Economic Development, and 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. Prof. Malko is 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. Prof. Malko is a Certified Rate of Return Analyst.