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Linda C. Kalver

Resume at: Kalver.pdfContact at: lck@teleconsultingroup.com

     Linda Kalver is an economist specializing in industry restructuring and privatization, the economics of regulated utilities, and utility costs, tariffs and regulation. She has almost 25 years’ experience in the economics of regulated industries.
     Ms. Kalver has worked in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe since 1996 as a member of interdisciplinary teams, including economists, engineers, lawyers, and accountants. These groups advise ministries, regulatory commissions, and other government organizations in the restructure, institution building and privatization of the electric power and telecommunications sectors.
     Since December 2000, she has advised the Minister of Justice of Armenia in the reform of the telecommunications sector. Her two responsibilities are to advise in renegotiating the license of ArmenTel, the monopoly telecommunications provider, and in establishing an independent regulatory body for the telecommunications sector.
     Ms. Kalver has provided analysis and advice in the development and implementation of regulatory reform in the telephone, cable and satellite communications industries and has testified on behalf of intervenors in telecommunications rate proceedings. She has participated in numerous depreciation rate cases and has provided litigation support for various clients.
     She has a theoretical background in industrial organization, microeconomic theory, market research, econometrics, mathematics, statistics and operations research. She has applied this knowledge in several sectors, including the telecommunications and electric power industries and the postal service.
     Ms. Kalver has been a consultant since 1986. Before this, she served for ten years as a senior economist at the New York Telephone Company and the NYNEX Corporation and as a load analyst at the American Electric Power Company.
     She attended MIT and received a Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in mathematics from Harvard University. She also received a Master of Arts in mathematics from Harvard University and a Master of Arts in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.