Biography
Dr. Ernest Nadel has been a principal at LECG since 1997 specializing in transportation, international trade, antitrust, and oil and gas issues.Dr. Nadel has 33 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 US, foreign and domestic offshore, and ocean liner transportation, covering such issues as competition, 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 more than 20 cases before the Federal Maritime Commission, the Maritime Subsidy Board, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Surface Transportation Board, and in arbitration proceedings, and has provided regulatory and litigation consultation in more than 25 other cases . He has led maritime studies on contract to the Maritime Administration, the state of Hawaii, and the Military Sealift Command (US 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, and market and netback valuations of oil and natural gas, and has advised the governments of Alaska and Newfoundland on the design and valuation of royalty contracts.
Dr. Nadel holds a BA and the Allen Oliver Gold Medal in economics from McGill University (1964) and holds an MA (1967) and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago (1969). 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, Inc. in charge of their transportation practice for 11 years before joining LECG in 1997. Dr. Nadel is fluent in French and has been published in the American Economic Review and the Canadian Economic Review.
Profile Highlights
Professional Experience
- Consulting - 32 years
- International Engagements - 32 years
- Academic Professional - 7 years
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Testimony Experience
- Federal/National
- State/Provincial
- Arbitration
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Representative Engagements
Publications
- 07/1995, The Cost of Cargo Preference to the DoD, June 1, 1993 to May 31, 1994
- 1985, Outlook for the Liberalization of Maritime Transport
- 1984, Forces Shaping International Maritime Transport
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Employment History
- 1997 to present, LECG Principal
- 1986 to 1997, Barakat & Chamberlin, Inc. Principal
- 1975 to 1986, Manalytics, Inc. Manager of Economics
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Education
- 1969, University of Chicago, PhD
- 1967, University of Chicago, MA
- 1964, McGill University, BA