Straight answers to difficult questions
Economic, strategy, and policy advice for organisations facing complex decisions
Heuser | Whittington helps organisations make sound decisions on complex policy and economic issues.
We work with government agencies, regulated businesses, and boards that need clarity, high quality analysis, and senior judgment.
Our work begins with defining the question that actually needs to be answered. We take the time to understand your key decisions, appreciate the context, and structure the problem before moving to analysis. We use economic reasoning, modelling, and structured judgement to provide clear advice that clients can act on.
We support organisations facing decisions where business, government, and regulation intersect.
Public policy and regulatory reform
We advise on how policy and regulatory changes affect businesses, markets, and public outcomes. We help clients understand proposed reforms, assess their likely effects, and engage credibly in policy processes. We also support government agencies designing reforms that work.
Market and institutional design
We advise on how rules, governance arrangements, and incentive structures shape behaviour and outcomes. This includes pricing frameworks, access arrangements, regulatory models, and the architecture of markets.
Major transactions and due diligence
We provide independent economic and commercial analysis for significant transactions, including infrastructure investments, market entry decisions, and public-private arrangements. We test assumptions, identify risks, and support informed decision-making.
Strategy under uncertainty
We help organisations facing genuinely difficult strategic choices, where outcomes depend on factors beyond their control. We work with leaders to diagnose the core problem, map realistic options, and stress-test plans against plausible futures.
Economic analysis
We help clients understand how policy, regulation, or market change affects behaviour, prices and outcomes.
Fiscal analysis
We analyse what decisions mean for public finances, budgets, and long-term fiscal positions.
Why clients choose us
Clients choose Heuser | Whittington when decisions are complex, contested or high-stakes:
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We are hands-on throughout. Clients engage directly with senior practitioners who have advised Ministers, boards, regulators, and investors on consequential decisions.
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We begin by clarifying what is actually being decided and what success looks like. This discipline keeps work focused and avoids scope creep.
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Our methods, assumptions, and limitations are transparent. We explain uncertainty clearly and distinguish evidence from judgment.
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We help clients navigate trade-offs that cannot be resolved by modelling alone, using structured judgment grounded in experience.
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Our advice is concise, credible, and designed to support real decisions, not just to inform discussion.
Who we work with
If you are facing a complex decision and need clear, structured advice, we are ready to talk.
Government agencies and regulators
Regulated firms and infrastructure providers
Boards and senior executives
Multilateral development banks
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We offer an initial, confidential conversation to understand your situation, clarify what is truly being decided, and explain how we would approach it. No obligation.