Ms Ethèl Teljeur holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. She also studied at Kingston University in the UK and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She has been living and working in South Africa for 8 years and in that period has worked for government, regulators and the private sector. Ms Teljeur specialises in competition and utility regulation. Over the course of her career she has gained deep
understanding of the challenges facing utility reform in South Africa.

She has held positions at the Department of Trade and Industry, the Competition Commission of South Africa, the Dutch office for Energy Regulation (DTE) and in the private sector, most recently at resource company BHP Billiton. She is also a parttime lecturer on a Masters Course at the LINK Centre of the WITS Graduate School of Business, where she teaches pricing methodologies and the economics of network industries. She has experience in competition and regulation matters, both from a policy development and implementation point of view and has extensive experience in electricity and natural gas pricing and regulatory reform processes. She has consulted to Government Departments and the NER, and was project leader of the 10 Year Review of Regulatory Frameworks forthe Presidency and of the Administered Prices Review for the National Treasury.

Through her affiliation with the Energy Intensive Users Group she has been involved in electricity regulation processes in South Africa and has gained an appreciation for the particular challenges facing electricity consumers. She is therefore highly equipped to help steer NERSA towards its vision of becoming a world class regulator.

In October 2005, she was appointed by the Minister of Minerals and Energy as full-time Regulator Member of the National Energy Regulator (NERSA), primarily responsible for pipedgas regulation.