Mike Thomas

Mike Thomas, with over three decades of energy sector consulting experience, is the managing director at The Lantau Group. He specialises in the rigorous application of economics and analytics to energy sector challenges facing policymakers, commercial stakeholders, and decarbonisation-committed end users. His experience extends across the wide spectrum of energy market designs and regulatory arrangements, including from fully nodal competitive markets, with and without capacity market mechanism, to vertically integrated regulated structures. Prior to co-founding The Lantau Group, Mike headed the Asia Pacific Energy & Environment practice of a global consulting firm and was based in Wellington, New Zealand for ten years. He moved to Hong Kong in 2007 and co-founded The Lantau Group in 2010. He began his consulting career in the United States where he worked for 10 years with a firm that, among other things, was a leader in energy sector liberalisation engagements worldwide. Mike has an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School (PAE Prize) and a BA in Economics from Carleton College.