Regulation, Economics & Operating Models

Our REO Practice helps governments, regulators, operators, and investors shape fair and sustainable digital markets. We guide clients through regulation and competition assessments, regulatory strategy design, due diligence, and policy advocacy, ensuring frameworks that balance innovation with consumer protection.

Our economic expertise covers cost–benefit and affordability studies, pricing and value chain strategies, PPP design, and auction models. We then turn policy into practice by building operating models, governance structures, processes, and capability plans.

By combining rigorous analysis with hands-on execution, we help clients encourage investment, protect consumers, and create resilient, future-ready digital ecosystems.

As part of our regulatory advisory offering, we also provide high-quality capacity-building and training services enabling clients to enhance their internal competencies across digital and ICT functions. Our structured programmes foster lasting capability development, supporting organisations as they implement, manage, and evolve their transformation initiatives.

Practice leads

Erik Whitlock
Partner & Practice Head

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Regulation advisory

  • Regulation and competition assessments
  • Regulatory strategy definition and implementation
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Legal and regulatory due diligence
  • Policy advocacy
  • Regulation drafting

Economics advisory

  • Public-private partnerships option analysis, risk modeling, design and structure and implementation support
  • Cost, pricing and affordability studies, assessment and strategies
  • ICT market and value chain analysis
  • Economic and statistical analysis
  • Procurement and auction design
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Operating models advisory

  • Organisation structure and dimensioning
  • Governance strategy, models and implementation support
  • Processes design, optimisation and automation
  • Skills and capability assessment, management and building plans

Meet the experts

Lisa Leidig
Senior Legal & Regulatory
Advisor

Ammar Hamadien
Principal Consultant & Head of Strategic Partnerships

Rozalija Bates
Principal Consultant – Regulatory Strategy Expert

Blagojka Panovska
Principal Consultant – 
Organisation and Planning Expert

Juan Roldan
Senior Regulatory
Consultant

Nadia Simon
Economist Expert

Meet the experts

Lisa Leidig
Senior Legal & Regulatory
Advisor

Ammar Hamadien
Principal Consultant & Head of Strategic Partnerships

Rozalija Bates
Principal Consultant – Regulatory Strategy Expert

Blagojka Panovska
Principal Consultant – 
Organisation and Planning Expert

Juan Roldan
Senior Regulatory
Consultant