• ​​Marc H. Vatter
    Ph.D., Brown University
    Economist
    Nashua, New Hampshire
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    ​marcATappliedecon.net
    503.227.199FOUR
    603.402.343THREE    ​
    ​Marc’s work involves applied economic theory, market simulation, econometric analysis, and forecasting, and has focused on wholesale power and natural gas markets in New England, Mexico, the Upper Midwest, the Mid-South, the Pacific Northwest, and California, on unconventional fossil fuel plays such as the Bakken and Barnett Shales, and on global petroleum markets and the OPEC cartel.  He has given testimony on issues related to wholesale power and natural gas markets before federal and state regulators and civil courts as an expert witness for attorneys at the Bonneville Power Administration, Mississippi Public Utilities Staff, Michigan Public Service Commission Staff, the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, and Moses, Palmer & Howell, and on lost personal earnings for Tichenor & Dziuba.  Earlier in his career, he did extensive work in litigation support for other experts.  He has published and presented peer-reviewed research at conferences, and taught energy economics to graduate students in business at Universidad del Pacífico in Lima, Peru.  He now teaches economic analysis to graduate students in business at Rivier University in Nashua.

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  • ​Samuel A. Van Vactor
    Ph.D., University of Cambridge
    President, Economic Insight, Inc.
    Portland, Oregon

    sam.vanvactorATcantab.net
    503.222.242FIVE
    541.639.424ONE
    +44.7495.950.41ZERO
    ​Sam has led Economic Insight, a firm of consulting economists specializing in energy and natural resource issues, for over three decades.  He has advised many public and private organizations on economic and energy matters, including the American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Bonneville Power Administration, the California Power Exchange, Pacific Gas & Electric Corporation, Sempra, the Western Interstate Energy Board, Sasol, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the Mitsubishi Research Institute, Tokyo Gas, Gaz de France, Gas Natural, Chevron, Exxon-Mobil, BP, the State of Alaska, and the Government of India. He has appeared as an expert witness in international arbitration, tax hearings, civil disputes, antitrust cases, and regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and a variety of State Public Utility Commissions.

    Sam was an officer on destroyers in the U.S. Navy, an economist at the U.S. Treasury, and a senior economist at the International Energy Agency of the OECD.  He also taught energy economics and/or lectured on energy and economics subjects at the University of Tulsa, University of Oregon, Portland State University, University of Maryland (European Division), Cambridge University, and Columbia University.

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  • ​Juan Mendoza
    Ph.D., Brown University
    Senior Economist
    Mendoza Economic Advisors
    Los Angeles, California

    jmendozaATmendozaecon.com
    323.239.945FIVE
    ​Juan has used state-of-the-art econometric techniques to forecast macroeconomic, financial, and monetary metrics for over fifteen years.  His toolkit includes machine learning, data science, traditional time series and panel analysis, and a wide range of programming languages and statistical software packages.  Juan has been a professor at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad del Pacífico, and the Peruvian central bank in Lima, and at the University at Buffalo.

    Juan is a leading authority on the economics of appropriative conflict. He has done extensive academic work on civil conflict, the security of property rights, and the political economy of distributional conflict. He has presented his work at several professional conferences and published several academic papers on the security of property rights and economic growth. 

    He has also been a consultant for energy companies in Peru.

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  • ​R. Kent Koeninger
    B.S., California State University
    Big Data-AI Specialist
    Greenfield, Massachusetts

    koeningerATappliedecon.net
    603.589.084SIX
    ​Kent is a thought-leader in artificial intelligence, machine, and deep learning.  His career includes years at IBM, HP, Myricom, Cray Research/SGI, Apple, NASA, and as a professor at California State University.  He began this journey with the Homebrew Computer Club in Silicon Valley, where he designed, built, and programmed a microcomputer from scratch, and it culminated as founder and CEO of Veritomyx, where he improved protein identification, employing advanced spectral analysis and genetic algorithms to improve mass-spectrometer resolution.

    Kent is an active member of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, and has turned his intellect to climate change as a scientific and moral issue, on which he collaborates with other members of The Economic Utility Group.

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