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Ben Bentzin
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Marketing, Red McCombs School of Business
ben.bentzin@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 750 9253
Expertise: Marketing of technology, product marketing, strategic pricing, social media, entrepreneurship

Leigh B Boske
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
leigh.boske@utexas.edu
Expertise: Dr. Boske's teaching and research interests have focused on transportation policy, economics and finance. His published research has been on national and international transport policy issues, the role of transportation and logistics in international trade, and multimodal/intermodal transport planning.

John C Butler
Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Finance, Red McCombs School of Business
butlerjc@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6821
Expertise: Dr. Butler's research focuses on the Decision Sciences: decision analysis, operations, information systems, management science and statistics. He serves as Secretary/Treasurer of INFORMS Decision Analysis Society, an organization comprised of over 900 academics and practitioners in the field of decision analysis. For EMIC, Dr. Butler is focused on building energy-specific business curriculum. He teaches MBA-level energy finance classes and supervises student participation in practicums and case competitions.

Marika Cabral
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts
marika.cabral@utexas.edu
Expertise: Economics; health-related economics; health insurance; insurance; taxation; privatization of health markets

Debra Cantu
Associate Professor of Practice, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
debra.cantu@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 6137
Expertise: Curriculum
Leads and develops curriculum content, scope and sequence, standards alignment and performance assessments for higher education and school district curriculum.
Certification
Leads policies, practices and designs systems required by Texas Education Agency for admissions, clinical experiences and certification for the program and department.
Leadership Development
Develops equity-centered PK-12 school leaders. Designs and coordinates learning objectives, knowledge development, and effective practices for graduate students to apply theory into practice in their internship based on the following learning outcomes:
*Develop Capacity for Teaching and Learning Excellence
*Advocate for and Ensuring Equitable Support Systems for All
*Foster School Culture that Values Inclusiveness, Diversity and Cultural Proficiency
*Build Executive Leaders to Promote Ethical Policies and Practices
*Partner Authentically and Equitably with Families and Communities

Richard J Chuchla
Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program Director, JSG Energy and Earth Resources
richard.chuchla@jsg.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 9510
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Graduate studies were focused on igneous processes, magmatism and related formation of ore deposits. Professional career included exploration for base and precious metal ore deposits, coal assessment and development, and research, exploration and development in the upstream sector of the oil and gas business. Managerial positions led to development of skills in commercial analysis, strategic planning and valuation. Concurrently, led numerous teams negotiating new contracts which led to a strong grounding in analysis of fiscal regimes and petroleum contracts. Familiar with many of the world's basins and experienced in both conventional deepwater and unconventional resources.
Remain very interested in the technology of extractive industries and related commercial and policy issues. As Director of the Energy and Earth Resources graduate program, my personal learning objective is to broaden and deepen my understanding of renewable resources.
Have a personal passion regarding the workings of the creative process and how it is impeded. Wrote a widely read internal company newsletter called Creative Contemplations.

Mechele Dickerson
Professor, School of Law
mdickerson@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1311
Expertise: Consumer debt, U.S. housing crisis, income and wealth inequality, student loans, remedies

William L Fisher
Professor and Leonidas T. Barrow Centennial Chair Emeritus in Mineral Resources, Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences
wfisher@jsg.utexas.edu
Expertise: Basin analysis, sequence stratigraphy, depositional systems, petroleum geology, resource assessment, energy policy

Kenneth Flamm
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
kflamm@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Flamm, an expert on the economics of trade and investment in high technology industries, has published extensively on the economics of the semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries. He has worked closely with the semiconductor industry's SEMATECH research consortium in building economic models describing the impact of technological innovation on industrial competition in that industry.

Daniel G Fridman
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
dfridman@utexas.edu
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: Economic Sociology; Ethnography; Sociology of Finance; Neoliberalism; Consumption; Sociology of Money; Latin America

James K Galbraith
Professor, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
galbraith@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 1244
Expertise: Macroeconomic policy; monetary policy, economic development policies; comparative economic policy; economic inequality

Michael H Granof
Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, Department of Accounting, Red McCombs School of Business
michael.granof@mccombs.utexas.edu
Expertise: Governmental and nonprofit accounting and finance, financial accounting and reporting, auditing

Sherri R Greenberg
Assistant Dean, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
srgreenberg@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 8324, +1 512 656 6592
Expertise: A member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1991-2001, Greenberg?s areas of expertise include state and local government, public finance and budgeting, education, health care, transportation, and campaigns and elections in the state of Texas.

Clement M Henry
Professor Emeritus, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
chenry@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Political economy; comparative politics; Middle East and North Africa - esp. Algeria Egypt Morocco Tunisia; politics of international oil; Islamic financial systems; commercial banking systems in the MENA; business, economics & labor.

Henry T Hu
Professor, School of Law
hhu@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1373
Expertise: Law and economics of corporate and international finance; swaps; derivatives; securities; banking; corporate governance; hedge funds; mutual funds; new financial products and financial innovation; corporate hedging; investment and risk management; business, economics & labor

Junfeng Jiao
Associate Professor, School of Architecture
jjiao@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Smart communities and built environments; Transit and food access; Active travel; Shared mobility

Karrol A Kitt
Associate Professor Emeritus, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, College of Natural Sciences
kkitt@austin.utexas.edu
Expertise: Personal Finance (Insurance, cash management, spending plans, financial spreadsheets, credit, financial behavior); Family Resource Management (values, standards, & goals; mananging change; decision making; organization; work at home & at the workplace)

Ken-Hou Lin
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Liberal Arts
lin@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 9412
Expertise: Inequality, Economy and Society, Finance, Organization, Race, and Methods

Angela K Littwin
Professor, School of Law
alittwin@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 5561
Expertise: Bankruptcy; consumer credit especially credit cards; secured credit

James A Nolen
Associate Director of Hicks, Muse, Tate and Furst Center for Private Equity, Department of Finance, Red McCombs School of Business
james.nolen@mccombs.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 6834, +1 512 471 4368
Expertise: Corporate finance, entrepreneurship, mergers & acquisitions

Pedro Reyes
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, College of Education
preyes@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 475 8569
Spanish Speaker
Expertise: I study student success for children experiencing poverty. I analyze how school leadership and state policy facilitate student success across the education pipeline.

Ehud I Ronn
Professor, Department of Finance, Red McCombs School of Business
eronn@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 471 5853
Expertise: Dr. Ronn's research is primarily in the area of energy risk: modeling, measurement and management. He has published articles on banking, investments, interest rate-sensitive instruments, and energy derivatives in academic and practitioner literature. In the energy-consulting area, Dr. Ronn has addressed the multiple issues of Risk Assessment; Construction of Optimal Hedge Portfolios; VAR and CVAR; Dual-Fuel Options; Valuation of Load-Following Services; Modeling Energy Prices and Pricing Monthly and Daily Options; and the Valuation and Optimal Management of Storage Facility.

William G Spelman
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
spelman@mail.utexas.edu
Expertise: Urban policy and management; urban politics; criminal justice policy; prisons; municipal policing; community crime prevention

James C Spindler
Professor, School of Law
jspindler@law.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 1096
Expertise: Securities regulation, corporate law, corporate finance, securities disclosure, corporate fraud, corporate governance, executive compensation, securitizations, and auction rate securities

Sheridan Titman
Director, Energy Management and Innovation Center, Red McCombs School of Business
titman@mail.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2787
Expertise: Corporate finance, energy, finance, real estate and investments, business, economics & labor, environment & earth science

Philip U Treisman
Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences
uri@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 232 2271, +1 512 471 6190
Expertise: Education Policy; mathematics education; economics of education; educational equity; education program design and evaluation volunteerism

Scott Wallace
Managing Director, Value Institute for Health and Care, Dell Medical School
scott.wallace@austin.utexas.edu
+1 512 495 5127, +1 708 267 6564
Expertise: value-based health care delivery, Experience Group research tool, health IT, chronic care models, outcomes measurement, innovation and financing issues in health care, policy

David C Warner
Professor Emeritus, Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs
david.warner@utexas.edu
Expertise: Health policy; health finance; diabetes costs; border health; health insurance; mental health policy; Mexican health system; business, economics & labor.

Rachel Wellhausen
Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Liberal Arts
rwellhausen@utexas.edu
+1 512 232 7202
Expertise: International political economy, politics of multinational corporations, international investment and trade treaties, Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), sovereign debt, politics of science and technology, Native American economic development