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Dr. Manuel A. Abdala earned a PhD in economics from Boston University and has been a director at LECG since 1998 where he is the practice leader of international arbitration. He has provided expert testimony in several contract disputes between private investors and governments, involving topics such as investor expectations, regulatory issues leading to indirect expropriation, sovereign insurance claims, and complex damages quantification.
He has published extensively on topics covering infrastructure economic regulation, institutional design, utility privatization and valuation, industry structure, competition policies, and antitrust. Dr. Abdala has completed projects on ex-post privatization analysis in Mexico, UK, Malaysia, Chile, Turkey, and Argentina. He has also served as economic advisor to Argentina's Secretariat of Energy on the liberalization of the power sector in the 1990s. He has conducted numerous works and studies for private companies and public institutions related to the analysis of regulated utilities and infrastructure projects in several countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Hungary, India, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Turkey, the United States, Uruguay, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela. | 