Kris is an economist with over 25 years’ experience advising governments, regulators, and private sector clients in Australia and New Zealand across the energy, water, telecoms, finance and data centre sectors. He has deep expertise in the fields of economic regulation and competition, and has been involved with the delivery of major reform programs developing innovative solutions to complex competition and regulatory challenges. He has held senior leadership and economist roles in energy market bodies, regulators, consultancies, water and telecoms businesses. Prior to joining Rennie he was the Executive General Manager Network Regulation at the Australian Energy Regulator from 2021-26, where he oversaw the full five-year cycle of network regulatory determinations for networks and the development of revised and new guidelines to deal with regulatory changes arising from the energy transition. He has also previously been a Partner at Deloitte Access Economics, Executive General Manager Markets at the Australian Energy Market Commission, Deputy Chief Economist Networks at the New Zealand Commerce Commission and held senior roles at Sydney Water, Telstra and AAPT. Kris has PhD in Economics from the Australian National University looking at Access Pricing for regulated utilities and honours in Economics/Econometrics from the Australian National University.