Kenneth W. Grant II
Vice President
Kenneth Grant is a Vice President with Compass Lexecon and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Grant provides business consulting, privileged consulting, and expert witness testimony, both domestic and international, on behalf clients and their attorneys. He specializes in matters of competitive analysis, market value, and public policy and has analyzed market structures and economic factors impacting firm behavior and competitive outcomes on behalf of clients in the energy industry, including oil, natural gas, and electricity.
During his tenure with Compass Lexecon, Mr. Grant has submitted testimony on behalf of major oil companies related to the value of hydrocarbons, refining and transportation assets, and damages stemming from contractual disputes. He has, on behalf of the world’s major oil and natural gas companies, managed Compass Lexecon’s efforts in complex energy-related disputes. His recent work has focused on the assessment of the market value of crude oil, natural gas, and LNG, including the competitive and market value implications of vertical integration and the different institutional and contractual arrangements within the oil and gas sectors.
Previously, Mr. Grant was an economist with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation in Washington, D.C. Working in the Investment Development Division, he conducted market analyses and researched capital requirements and economic effects of proposed projects. As an instructor for the Harvard Institute for International Development, Mr. Grant taught cost-benefit analysis, project analysis and microeconomics to officials from utilities, regulator agencies and economic development banks in the developing world.
Mr. Grant’s testimony experience includes Compañía Mega v. Petróleo Brasileiro S.A.; Frontier Oil Corporation v. Holly Corporation; Texaco Inc., et al., v. Duhe, et al.; Sadie R. Long, et al v. Texaco Inc., et al.; and Canyon Oil & Gas Company v. Phillips Petroleum Company.
Other selected reports and testimony include “Supplementary Proposed Rule for Establishing Oil Value for Royalty Due on Federal Leases,” before the United States of America, Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service; “Further Supplementary Proposed Rule for Establishing Oil Value for Royalty Due on Federal Leases,” before the United States of America, Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service; “Critique of ‘Sparks and Wires’” (Assessment of the Restructuring of the Electricity Industry); and “Costs, Benefits and Public Policy Merits of the Proposed Western Navajo-Hopi Lake Powell Pipeline.”
Mr. Grant has a master of public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a bachelor of arts in economics from Middlebury College.