Robert McMillanDirector
focus areas
- Regulatory frameworks
- Testimony, assurance and governance reviews
- Regulatory support
- Policy development
- Customer and stakeholder engagement
- Modelling
- Business decision making
- Project management
education
- Masters of Regulatory Economics (Australian National University)
- Bachelor of Economics (Monash University)
- Diploma of Management, Australian Institute of Management
- Member, Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
Robert McMillan is an experienced infrastructure economist and utility sector leader with deep expertise in infrastructure policy and regulatory practice across energy, water, telco and transport. He also advises Australian and New Zealand utilities on commercial strategy, investment planning, compliance, governance and cost recovery, pricing, and stakeholder engagement.
Robert is expert in utility sector regulation, having been an energy utility executive, designed rules, led regulatory reviews, advised utility boards and management teams on regulatory, investment and pricing strategy, and provided expert testimony. He brings deep commercial, governance and policy understanding, which he combines with proven skill in leading multi-disciplinary teams. This makes him highly effective in facilitating business decisions, assessing utility investment and project governance, designing and administering regulation, and engaging stakeholders.
Robert has advised extensively on the role of customer participation in regulatory processes in energy, water and ports. He has designed, facilitated and evaluated customer research and engagement programs for utilities across Australia, and has helped regulators to articulate the preconditions for them to place reliance on engagement outcomes.
Robert is an experienced infrastructure economist and utility sector leader with deep expertise in infrastructure policy and regulatory practice across energy, water, telco and transport.
In recent years he has worked for policy makers, energy businesses and regulators on integrating distributed energy resources, hydrogen, and state and market operator-initiated transmission investments into national and jurisdictional energy regulatory regimes.
Robert appreciates the context within which consumers, businesses and government agencies make decisions, and the practical realities of implementing them. He draws on his broad combination of experience working in and for government, regulators, infrastructure investors, utilities and new entrants. He has held roles at Jemena, farrierswier, NERA Economic Consulting, the Victorian Essential Services Commission and the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance. He is presently a Director of Goulburn Murray Water and Member of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s expert advisory panel where he has been assessing renewable technology grant funding applications since 2017.
For a full curriculum vitae, please contact Robert via email.