Sam Markham is a Manager at Fluence, focusing on emerging policy issues and market opportunities for energy storage across active markets in APAC. Sam has extensive wholesale electricity market design, policy development and regulatory market monitoring experience in government rule-making and regulator roles. In previous roles, Sam led a team of modelling and economic experts to advise governments on reform opportunities to tackle key economic issues in the National Electricity Market (NEM), such as addressing future investment challenges, improving resilience to financial crises, and incentivising demand-side participation in wholesale operations.