Dr Dan Maldoom is a Partner of the economic consultancy, DotEcon, which he founded in 1999. He was previously Fellow in Economics at University College, Oxford. Dan has advised many regulators around Europe on spectrum award design and spectrum policy, including Ofcom in the UK and ComReg in Ireland. He has designed and implemented high value auctions across telecoms, energy and environmental sectors and advised governments around the world on new applications for market mechanisms. Dan is regularly involved with competition and regulatory debates in the telecoms and media sectors, often providing expert testimony in leading cases. He undertaken cost-benefit analysis for regulatory bodies underpinning many of the key policy changes in telecoms, such as the introduction of spectrum trading and the opening up of unlicensed spectrum.