Ben Mason

Ben is an economist who specialises in business cases, cost-benefit analysis and policy development. He has led and managed economic analyses and business cases for a range of major infrastructure projects and in a broad range of sectors including transport, water, energy and environmental sectors.

His expertise includes:

Infrastructure business cases

Ben has extensive experience in leading, authoring and reviewing business cases and cost-benefit analyses for a range of infrastructure projects. Examples include:

• Preparing a number of integrated water management and technology related business cases for water businesses.
• Completing a series of rail upgrade cost-benefit analyses for a State government.
• Completing an independent review of Infrastructure Australia’s cost-benefit analysis methodology for their 2021 release of their assessment framework.
• Preparing published guidelines for NSW Treasury on how to integrate resilience and adaptability into Infrastructure planning and assessment.

Informing regulatory and legislative reform

He also regularly works with State and Federal Governments to prepare regulatory impact statements and legislative impact statements. Ben focuses on grounding this work in a clear economic framework which he has applied to a wide range of topics including:

• Assisting the National Transport Commission to prepare a consultation regulatory impact statement and associated cost benefit analysis for reforms to the Heavy Vehicle National Law.
• Working with Sport Integrity Australia to develop a Regulatory Impact Statement for the Australian Sports Wagering scheme.
• Working with Victorian departments and organisations to provide cost-benefit analyses and drafting of legislative impact statements.

Applying economics to sustainability

Ben also has an interest in applying economics to sustainability. He is on the Infrastructure Sustainability Council’s Planning Technical Working Group and has also worked on a number of multi-disciplinary TCFD/ISSB projects, including:

• Independently reviewing economics elements of an Infrastructure Sustainability Rating application for a major road project.
• Working with a sustainability consultancy to baseline the financial impacts from extreme climate events for major businesses including in the property and transport sectors.
• Working with a sustainability consultancy to analyse the impact of introducing an internal carbon price on a major international manufacturing business.

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