EXPERT ON UTILITY REGULATION/DEREGULATION
AVAILABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS

	As you work to make sense of deregulation of the electric
utility industry for your readers, consider calling on Matthew
Holden Jr. for help.

	As a professor of government at the University of Virginia,
Holden specializes in public administration.  He is a former
commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (1977-81),
a former commissioner of the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
(1975-77), and currently serves as a director of Atlantic Energy
Inc., a major power company based in Pleasantville, N.J.

	Holden is mentioned in a number of directories of prominent
Americans, including "Who's Who in America" (44th edition, Marquis)
and "Who's Who Among Black Americans" (3rd edition, Marquis).

	His many publications include:  "The Energy Problem in the
American Democracy," The Crisis, March 1980; "The Presidency and the
Regulatory Process:  Energy," Governance VI New Insights of
Governance:  Theory and Practice, 1995; "The Regulatory Process and
the Politics of Energy," The Institutional and Political Challenges
of Energy Politics, 1982; and "The Utility Problem and the Energy
Problem," Challenges for Public Utility Regulation in the 1980s,
1981.

	Holden received his bachelor's degree from Roosevelt
University and his master's and doctoral degrees in political
science from Northwestern University.  Before coming to U.Va., he
taught at Wayne State University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Throughout his career, Holden has donated countless hours of public
service to government agencies, churches and civic organizations.

	He currently is the Henry L. and Grace M. Doherty Professor
of Government and Foreign Affairs at U.Va.

	Holden can be reached at (804) 924-3422, office; (804)
296-3649, home; and at mh3q@virginia.edu.

	For more information about the U.Va.'s business resources,
call Charlotte Crystal at (804) 924-6858.  Television reporters
should contact our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.

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June 25, 1996