Special Finance Courses - Fall 2009

Energy Markets FIN 798-102

This course will be offered in a three-weekend format (9/18-19, 10/2-3, 10/23-24) by Louise Burke.

It will cover the structure of energy commodity and commodity futures markets; futures and options instruments; trading institutions, credit management, federal trading policy and regulation; specific energy futures markets and instruments – oil and oil products, natural gas, electricity (possibilities and problems); business use for risk management in energy supply and demand.

Louise Burke is president of J.C. Energy Inc, a private consulting firm specializing in energy markets. She served as Vice-President, Marketing for the New York Mercantile Exchange, the premier regulated energy and metals futures and options exchange. She supervised marketing and education of major energy and metals futures and options contracts. While at NYMEX, Ms. Burke supported efforts of the World Bank and the US Agency for International Development in developing free markets and hedging programs in commodity-sensitive nations.

Ms. Burke has held executive positions at Mobil Oil Canada, Alberta Energy Company, in Canada, Petroleos De Venezuela in New York City and the New York Mercantile Exchange.   She teaches this course at Columbia University in New York and will be commuting to Chicago to teach at DePaul.