William Kwasi Gboney is an energy and regulatory economist and power engineer with three decades of experience in the economic regulation of utility companies and in power plant operations, with specific expertise in econometric, financial and tariff modeling, and demand/load forecasting for the power sector. He is also an expert in the application of empirical techniques for utility performance benchmarking.

William previously worked as a power plant engineer for the Volta River Authority, a power utility in Ghana, and later served as the Director for Technical Operations and Regulatory Economics at the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission in Accra, Ghana. Since 2006, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the International Institute of Infrastructure Economics and Management (I3EM). In this capacity, he has undertaken technical and tariff studies and organized training programs for power utilities and regulatory agencies across Africa.

As a consultant at GreenMax, William led the GreenMax Team’s preparation of an off-grid code for small power systems in Papua New Guinea for a UNDP-funded assignment in partnership with Trama TecnoAmbiental. He also supported an AfDB-funded project to design the steam tariff to be deployed by Kenya’s Geothermal Development Company (GDC).

William holds a Ph.D. in Economics and a M.Sc. in Economic Regulation and Competition from City University in London, U.K., an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Ghana, and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

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