Faculty
Ehud I. Ronn is a Professor of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin, holds the Jack S. Josey Professorship in Energy Studies, and is Director of the Center for Energy Finance Education and Research at the McCombs School of Business. Dr. Ronn obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics at the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University. He has published articles on banking, investments, interest rate-sensitive instruments and energy derivatives in the academic and practitioner literature, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, American Economic Review and Energy & Power Risk Management. Prior to joining the University of Texas at Austin in July 1988, Dr. Ronn was a faculty member of the business schools at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. While on a two-year 1991 - '93 leave of absence from the University of Texas, Dr. Ronn served as Vice President, Trading Research Group at Merrill Lynch & Co., where he was responsible for the valuation and hedging of a wide array of interest rate-sensitive securities, from callable bonds to exotic options. Since 1993, he has served as consultant to government agencies (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, State of Texas Securities and Pension Review Boards), insurance company (Allstate Insurance Co.), investment banks (Merrill Lynch & Co., Deutsche Morgan Grenfell), risk advisory firm (Teknecon Energy Risk Advisors) and energy-derivative software vendor (Nucleus Corp. of Texas) in the interest-rate and energy-commodity arenas. Dr. Ronn has addressed practitioner as well as academic audiences at Energy & Power Risk Management conferences and training courses. On May 1, 1998, Dr. Ronn was appointed a principal of the Law and Economics Consulting Group (LECG), Inc.
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