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Ryan Hawthrone

Ryan Hawthrone is a director of Acacia Economics and is an economist working on competition and economic regulation. His focus areas include competition/antitrust economics and the economics of telecommunications regulation. Ryan has led the economic analysis of a range of telecommunications regulation projects in a number of countries, including the market enquiry into mobile broadband for the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), and the recent spectrum licensing valuation and invitation to apply for ICASA.

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