Mr Ian Hayne BA (Hons)(Communication)
Ian Hayne established Market Dynamics Pty Ltd in 2000 as a specialist resource for companies and Governments operating in the communication policy and industry sector.
Over the last decade activities have tended towards expert communications policy and advisory assistance to the Governments of Indonesia under an AusAID program of technical assistance, and to the National telecommunications Commission of the Kingdom of Thailand under sponsorship from the World Bank International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). This assistance has embraced communication policy reform in a broad sense, but has seen implementation of significant micoreconomic reforms in spectrum management and a pricing.
Ian has a wealth of experience to support these services including contribution to the reform of communication policies in Australia as a former Australian public servant.
From 1994 to 2000, immediately prior setting up the company, Ian led the Spectrum Marketing Team of the Australian Communications Authority. This Team developed the first practical implementation in the worldof a fully tradeable, technology neutral spectrum property right and pioneered application in Australia of advanced market techniques to allocating licences to reflect these rights.
As part of the development of policy surrounding spectrum rights, Ian was responsible for selecting the US designed simultaneous ascending auction system to allocate spectrum licences. He managed the design and built the prototype demonstrator for the Australian implementation of the auction system. This included adapting the rules from the original theoretical design for the Australian setting, developing the prototype software and developing the documentation and all of the business rules and procedures to support the auction process. Ian also designed the system architecture, and wrote the software documentation for the client program. Few people in the world can claim such a comprehensive understanding of every facet of deploying multi-object auction systems.
Ian is an acknowledged authority on implementing price-based allocation of public resources and has been consulted by the New Zealand, Canadian, UK, Indonesia and Thai Governments on auction systems and on advanced spectrum management techniques. In response to an emerging requirement, Ian has developed a fully web-based implementation of the "clock-combinatorial auction" design, that has become the preferred design for high value spectrum rights. That system has been demonstarted successfully in both Indonesia and Thailand.
Before joining the former SMA/ACA, Ian worked as senior policy adviser to the Government in the broadcasting policy field. In the period from 1985 to 1994, he held a variety of positions in broadcasting policy, including Director of Technology and International, Director of Broadcasting Review and Planning, and Assistant Director of Commercial Television Policy. He was a senior member of the Broadcasting Review Group that completed the policy review of broadcasting regulation that led to the 1992 broadcasting regulation reforms.
Ian graduated with First Class Honours in Communication at the University of Canberra in 1993 and was awarded the University Medal for outstanding academic achievement. His Honours dissertation considered the implications of "convergence" for mass communications policy in Australia.