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Ernest Nadel is a principal at LECG, specializing in transportation, international trade, antitrust, and oil and gas issues. He has 30 years of experience in economic consulting, mainly to the surface (ocean and rail) transportation industry and the oil and gas industry. He is a renowned expert on the economics and regulation of U.S. ocean liner transportation, covering such issues as cost of service, rate reasonableness and rate overcharges, cargo forecasting, antitrust, intra-carrier agreements, and service efficiencies. Dr. Nadel has testified on behalf of governments, shippers, ocean carriers, rail carriers, ports, pilots, and carrier conferences in over a dozen cases before the Federal Maritime Commission, the Maritime Subsidy Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Surface Transportation Board, and in arbitration proceedings. He has led maritime studies on contract to the Maritime Administration, the State of Hawaii, and the Military Sealift Command (U.S. Department of Defense). On the rail side, he has led projects on rail mergers and traffic diversions, and has consulted on projects on costs and capacity to move coal, and costs and capacity to move international maritime containers. Dr. Nadel has also provided expertise on oil tanker matters, market and netback valuations of oil and natural gas, and has advised the US and Canadian governments on the design and valuation of royalty contracts. Dr. Nadel holds a BA and won the Allen Oliver Gold Medal in economics from McGill University in 1964, and holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. He was assistant professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1968 to 1975. He was the senior economist at Manalytics, Inc. for 11 years and a principal with Barakat & Chamberlin in charge of their transportation practice for 11 years before joining LECG in spring, 1997. Dr. Nadel is fluent in French and has been published in the American Economic Review and the Canadian Economic Review. | 