Ryan Williams is a member of the Regulatory Policy Committee. His other roles include the Chief Economist at Enoda, an electricity grid technology company based in Edinburgh. He was previously a Director at Grant Thornton UK, specialising in energy economics. Ryan was also a Principal at Oxera, where he managed regulatory initiatives across industries like electricity, gas, telecoms, water, and transport. As an academic, Ryan lectures in finance at Université Paris Dauphine, and was previously a tenured professor at the University of Arizona in the United States. Prior to academia, Ryan worked for PwC.
The government is keen that all areas of the public sector understand the opportunities from using artificial intelligence (AI) and mitigate the potential risks. The RPC has been experimenting with using AI tools over the past few months to see how far these can help us with different aspects of our work.
The two most recently appointed members of the RPC offer their initial impressions.