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Gideon Morrison-Wood is a Director working across CEPA’s infrastructure, regulatory economics and policy advisory practice. He has over 15 years’ experience of infrastructure economics, investment appraisal and economic policy advisory, with a particular focus on transport, freight and logistics, energy transition, supply chains, regulatory pricing and public sector business cases. Gideon has experience advising government and private sector clients across the UK, Australia and international markets.

Gideon works across international assignments, applying his economics, regulatory and commercial analysis experience to complex infrastructure and policy issues. He has supported the airline community in responding to the Civil Aviation Authority’s H8 proposals for Heathrow, helping coordinate the overall submission and client-side stakeholder group across workstreams. He also continues to advise Australian government clients, including the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, for whom he originated and led a first-principles assessment of APVMA cost recovery arrangements, including jurisdictional benchmarking and quantitative modelling of alternative cost recovery options.

Gideon specialises in economic appraisal, cost-benefit analysis, business case development and investment planning for major infrastructure and policy programmes. He has deep experience applying HM Treasury Green Book principles alongside Infrastructure Australia, ATAP and Australian state-level appraisal frameworks. His work includes leading the economic appraisal of Melbourne Suburban Rail Loop, contributing to an $11.5bn funding commitment, and leading the economics stream for the North South Corridor business case, which received Infrastructure Australia’s green rating on all counts.

Prior to joining CEPA, Gideon held senior roles with Scyne Advisory and PwC in Australia and the UK. His previous work includes leading a long-duration energy storage framework for the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, developing a first-of-its-kind freight economic contribution methodology for Transport for NSW, and leading road funding and charging reform for the PNG Government. He has also advised on commercial and financial modelling for infrastructure assets, including Dandenong South Inland Port, where his 20-year commercial model supported $30m in state investment and a subsequent market sounding process.

Gideon holds an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a PGCE in Business and Economics from the Institute of Education, London. He is also a PRINCE2 Practitioner, ILM Practitioner and qualified teacher, bringing a strong communication and stakeholder engagement background to his consulting work.