Dr. Ronn obtained his PhD in Finance from Stanford University. He has published articles on investments, interest-rate instruments and energy derivatives in the academic and practitioner literature. He is the editor of Real Options and Energy Management: Using Options Methodology to Enhance Capital Budgeting Decisions published in 2002 by Risk Books, London.

Prior to joining the University of Texas in July 1988, Dr. Ronn was a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. During 1997 – 2009, Dr. Ronn was the founding director of the University of Texas at Austin Center for Energy Finance Education and Research. In Fall 2011, Dr. Ronn was visiting professor of finance at Fordham Univ. and Dartmouth College.

During 1991 – ‘93, Dr. Ronn served as Vice President, Trading Research Group at Merrill Lynch & Co., and from Jan. 2010 to Feb. 2011, Commodity Market Modeling practice area manager at Morgan Stanley & Co. In Nov. 2004, Dr. Ronn was selected by Energy Risk to the “Energy Risk Hall of Fame.”