User:Sanford Berg

Dr. Sanford V. Berg Florida Public Utilities Professor Distinguished Service Professor, Economics Director of Water Studies, Public Utility Research Center

Address: Department of Economics, Matherly 318 PO Box 117140, Gainesville, FL 32611

Phone: (352) 392-0132, Fax: (352) 392-7796 E-mail: sberg@ufl.edu Homepages: http://warrington.ufl.edu/centers/purc/  http://warrington.ufl.edu/contact/profile.asp?WEBID=1260

Education Ph.D. Economics, Yale University, 1970 B.A. Economics, University of Washington, 1966 Research Interests Dr. Berg’s research has focused on infrastructure industries: the role of research and development in determining the basic industry conditions and the role of public policy in determining sector performance. Regulatory incentives shape managerial decisions regarding prices, facilities, contracts, service quality, and network expansion. Because of its collaborations with regulatory commissions and utilities around the world, the Public Utility Research Center (PURC) has created a library of material on infrastructure policy and regulatory governance. Berg has examined the role of network industries in economic growth and the promotion of innovative approaches to improving water sector performance. Recently, he has focused on external and internal governance as factors determining access to information and to incentives.

Dr. Berg is the co-author of Natural Monopoly Regulation: Principles and Practice (Cambridge University Press). He has published more than one-hundred articles on infrastructure issues, joint venture activity, and innovation in the Journal of Regulatory Economics, Utilities Policy, Water Policy, and other journals. His ten articles in Water21 examine investment, pricing, information, and incentive issues facing regulators and water systems managers. Traveling widely, he has given presentations on infrastructure issues in Argentina, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, Grenada, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, and the United Kingdom. He helped develop www.regulationbodyofknowledge.org.

His public service includes membership on the Florida Governor’s Energy2020 Study Commission, 2000-2001 and organization of the PURC/Askew Conference “How Should Florida’s Water Supply Be Managed in Response to Growth?” He has been co-coordinator of the PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy since 1996. Over 2700 regulators and managers from 150 nations have participated in the two week program at UF. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, New York Public Service Commission, Southern Company, United Nations (UN-Habitat and ECLAC) and other organizations. He has been honored with a number of awards, including University Teacher/Scholar of the Year, 1998-1999.

A recent publication is Water Utility Benchmarking: Measurement, Methodologies, and Performance Incentives (International Water Association Publishing, 2010). That book integrated results from several projects—for the World Bank (IBNET) and the Inter-American Development Bank (Benchmarking Study of Central American Water Utilities). Performance assessment represents a challenge for managers, regulators, and policy-makers. In May 2013 he completed a study for the UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean: Best Practices in Regulating State-Owned and Municipal Water Utilities (2013).