Delivering economic intelligence for organizations leading change

practice areas

Technology, global markets, and demographic trends are helping to reshape the landscape of work and markets for labor. WEA uses advanced customized expertise to uncover and understand the implications of these dynamics to help organizations, regions, and industries better prepare, respond, and compete in today’s economy.
Past experience includes leading and designing workforce development strategies for regions, industries, and firms; research supporting state talent attraction strategy and 10-year economic development strategy, and supporting private sector organizations target and attract new workers, among others.
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WEA has deep expertise and experience supporting the regulatory approval process through economic analysis of project benefits and costs, including ratepayer impacts, as well as supporting public engagement. We have supported billions of dollars of investments in energy transmission, terrestrial and offshore wind energy, utility-scale solar, transportation infrastructure and other large multi-use, commercial, and industrial projects.
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Your organization has a story it needs to tell. Whether the audience is federal, state, or local policymakers, regulatory permitting agencies, or investors, demonstrating and documenting economic impact is critical to your message. As experts in the field, we have worked with dozens of private and public sector organizations of all sizes to provide independent, expert economic analysis to successfully:
- Support regulatory approvals
- Evaluate impacts from policies & legislation on client operations & investments
- Secure local or state tax credits
- Support the case for investment funding
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WEA has the capacity to conduct a variety of economic, modelling, and forecasting services. Feel free to contact us to discuss your needs and to see how we could help or direct you to your best option.
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about

Dr. Ryan Wallace is principal economist of Wallace Economic Advisers, LLC. Ryan provides expert consulting services to industry and governments focused on helping organizations understand, document, and communicate the internal and external economic implications and impacts resulting from specific investments, policies, and general operations on the broader regional and national economies. He has provided economic modeling and support for over $6 billion of investments in electric transmission and renewable power projects in New England, since 2019. Ryan has authored over 100 studies on topics impacting the Maine, New England, and US economies, including dozens of economic impact modeling assessments for local development projects and industry sectors.

Prior to WEA, Ryan directed the Center for Business and Economic Research in the University of Maine System, where he was an appointed member of the Maine State Revenue Forecasting Committee and served on the advisory board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s New England Public Policy Center. He earned a PhD in Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he was a National Science Foundation Offshore Wind Energy IGERT Fellow and Associate, and holds a baccalaureate degree in finance from Bentley University. In the community, Ryan serves on the Board of Directors of a local non-profit school in Portland, Maine, spent 15 years as a volunteer for Best Buddies Int’l, and coaches youth sports.