Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, Director of the University of California Energy Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Cambridge, MA.  He is also an affiliated professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. He received his A.B. from U.C. Berkeley in 1978 and Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1983.

Borenstein's research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation.  He has published extensively on the airline, oil and gasoline, and electricity markets, as well as on insurance, e-commerce, mining, natural gas and other industries.  Borenstein was a member of the Governing Board of the California Power Exchange from 1997 until 2003 and served on the California Attorney General's gasoline price taskforce in 1999-2000.

During 1999-2002, he was co-director of the NBER's research project on e-commerce.  Most recently, his research has focused on the evolving airline industry, real-time retail electricity pricing, and the economics of renewable energy and climate change.

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about Severin Borenstein, please visit his website at: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/borenste/

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

James Passinjoined Firebird in 1999. He co-founded and manages Firebird Global Fund and Firebird Global Fund II. He is a former editor and research director at investment newsletter Taipan and an associate of the Market Technicians Association. James is a graduate of St. John’s College, where he majored in philosophy and classical literature. James serves on the board of directors of National Investment Bank of Mongolia and Sharyn Gol, a coal producer listed on the Mongolian Stock Exchange. James also serves as a director of several private, venture-stage international resource companies

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Martin King is the Vice President, Institutional Research of First Energy Capital Corporation.  Mr. King has a Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from the University of Calgary. His work experience includes a role as Economist at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa from 1990 to 1993; Economist with the National Energy Board in Calgary from 1993 to 1997; and for more than 10 years has been at FirstEnergy Capital Corp. in Calgary, where in his present role, he is responsible for the analysis, modeling and price forecasts of the crude oil and natural gas markets.

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about Martin King, please visit: http://www.firstenergy.com