Energy Faculty
Mimi Alciatore
CPA Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph.D. University of Texas-Austin
Prior to joining the University of Houston, Dr. Alciatore served on the faculty at Louisiana State University, Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and the London Business School in London, England. Dr. Alciatore has taught numerous executive education courses at universities and for various energy companies on such topics as financial statement analysis, financial reporting and disclosure, financial accounting, and oil and gas accounting. Her research activities center on financial markets, with a focus on accounting and financial reporting issues for the energy industry. She is on the editorial boards of the Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal and the Oil and Gas Tax Quarterly.
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Steve Arbogast
Executive Professor
Masters Princeton University
Stephen Arbogast served from 1999-2004 as the Treasurer of ExxonMobil Chemical Company and has over thirty years of experience in finance working with Exxon Corporation and ExxonMobil Chemical. While Treasurer of Chemicals, Mr. Arbogast held positions that included Director of Qenos (Australia's sole manufacturer of polyethylene, a joint venture with Orica PLC), Director of Dexco (a joint venture with Dow Chemical), and Director of Al Jubai Petrochemical Company in Saudi Arabia. Other former positions included Vice President of Finance for SeaRiver Maritime Inc. (an Exxon Shipping Company), Treasurer for Exxon Capital Corporation, Finance and Planning Manager for Esso Brasileira de Petroleo in Brazil, and Treasurer of Esso Central America, Panama, and Mexico.
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Praveen Kumar
Texas Commerce Bank/Tenneco Professor of Finance
Ph.D. Stanford University
Prior to joining the UH faculty in 1996, Professor Kumar served on the faculty of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie-Mellon University. He is the recipient of the University of Houston Enron Teaching Excellence Award for 2001-02, and Excellence in Classroom Award from Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Kumar is widely published in the leading finance, economics, and management journals. His areas of specialization include Real Options, Corporate Financial Policies and Governance, Stochastic Processes, and Industrial Organization.
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Jim Neikirk
Lecturer
Former senior executive and top supply chain professional with a strong track record of accomplishment for F50 corporations. Thirty five years experience in purchasing and supply related fields servicing the energy sector. Over 20 years with Shell Oil in all segments of the business: upstream, downstream, chemicals and corporate services. Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer at Entergy; managed corporate shared services. President & CEO and Board member of Pantellos / Perfect Commerce, a B2B supply chain improvement firm. Well versed in corporate governance issues.
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Craig Pirrong
Professor of Finance
Director of Energy Markets, UH - GEMI
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Prior to joining UH, Dr. Pirrong was the Watson Family Professor of Commodity and Financial Risk Management and Associate Professor of Finance at Oklahoma State University. He has also served as a faculty member of the University of Michigan, of the University of Chicago, and of Washington University in St. Louis. Professor Pirrong's research focuses on the economics of commodity markets, the relation between market fundamentals and commodity price dynamics, and the implications of this relation for the pricing of commodity derivatives. His recent research is concentrated on the power markets. Professor Pirrong has also published extensively on the economics of financial exchanges, publishing 30 articles in professional publications and three books. Professor Pirrong has consulted widely; past clients include electric utilities, major commodity processors and consumers, and commodity exchanges around the world.
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Joseph Pratt
Cullen Professor of History & Business
Professor of Management
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University
Joseph A. Pratt is the Cullen Professor of History and Business at the University of Houston, where he has taught for the last 16 years. Before coming to UH, he taught in the business school at the University of California-Berkeley and at the Harvard Business School. He earned his B.A. from Rice University and his Ph.D. in economic history from Johns Hopkins. A specialist in the history of the petroleum industry, he has written histories of Amoco, the Texas Eastern Corporation, and the National Petroleum Council. He is currently at work on a history of the offshore petroleum industry.
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Latha Ramchand
Associate Professor of Finance
Ph.D. Northwestern University
A former financial analyst with Midfirst Bank, Professor Ramchand joined the UH faculty in 1993. Professor Ramchand's areas of specialization include corporate finance and international finance. Her research interests areas include international asset pricing models, global equity issues, and home bias in portfolio composition, and her research has appeared in the leading finance journals.
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Gary Schugart
Associate Professor of Accounting
Ph.D. University of Kansas
Ph.D., The University of Kansas, 1973, Finance. Teaching areas are oil and gas accounting, financial statement analysis, financial accounting, and international accounting. Co-author of the book, Survey of Accounting. Previously taught at Texas A&M University, University of Kansas, and Wichita State University. Developed and taught Continuing Professional Education courses on topics such as financial analysis, managerial accounting and oil and gas tax and accounting. Publications have appeared in The Oil and Gas Quarterly, Business, The Financial Review, The Tax Executive, Hospital Financial Management, Louisiana CPA, Readings in Oil Industry Accounting, The Texas Business Executive, and Journal of Finance, among others.
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