Dr. Stephen George has more than 27 years of experience consulting to electric and gas utilities and regulatory agencies, and 30 years of experience in the energy field.  His areas of expertise include pricing strategy, demand response market analysis, demand-side management program design and evaluation, electric industry restructuring, strategic and marketing planning, market research, and energy demand modeling.  In recent years, Dr. George has worked extensively on issues associated with electricity pricing and advanced metering, including the design and evaluation of California's Statewide Pricing Pilot, the largest pricing experiment ever done in the US.  He has also provided advice on retail market design and implementation issues to utilities in several states, including California, Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas and others.  Dr. George has also consulted on market design issues in Singapore, Ontario Canada, New Zealand and Australia.  Dr. George holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in economics from Santa Clara University.