Emmanuel Grand

Emmanuel Grand is an energy economist with more than 20 years of advisory and dispute experience in the renewable, electricity and oil & gas sectors. His expertise focuses on issues related to energy contracts, markets, and regulations.

Mr. Grand regularly supports investors, corporates, and governments in their appraisal of infrastructure assets or energy contracts, notably through commercial due diligence, contract value analyses, or model-based price forecasting exercises in the electricity, oil, gas, alternative fuels and carbon markets. He has notably led and supported commercial negotiations for numerous energy and infrastructure long-term contracts (such as Power Purchase Agreements, Gas/LNG supply agreements, Tenders, and Concession agreements), analysing prices and flexibilities, payments terms, risk-sharing and operational issues for engagements exceeding USD 100bn combined.

Mr. Grand has also worked on regulatory issues in 35 countries related to markets design, price controls, access rules and remuneration schemes. He has designed legal and contractual arrangements for regulators, assessed various regulatory options for regulated companies, as well as supported market participants in their regulatory applications.

Leveraging his expertise in supporting commercial and regulatory decisions, Mr. Grand has intervened as party - or tribunal - appointed independent expert on energy disputes over claims worth up to USD 2bn. He has delivered testimonies as a quantum and industry expert in more than 20 disputes, before national courts and arbitral tribunals under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, the London Court of International Arbitration, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the OHADA Common Court of Justice & Arbitration, as well as ad hoc arbitrations.

Mr. Grand is a graduate of the London School of Economics, the University of Cambridge, and the École Centrale de Lyon. He trained as an economist and an engineer. Mr. Grand has published several books on regulatory economics and the energy sector.