Energyforum
Advanced Master Course in Modelling and Management of Energy Risk- Part one
20-21 October 2009, Amsterdam
Course Leaders:
Fred Espen Benth, CMA
Fred Espen Benth is a professor in Financial Mathematics and deputy manager at the Centre of Mathematics for Applications (CMA), University of Oslo. He has numerous publications in scientific journals and is used as a consultant by the energy, finance and insurance industry in Norway. Before becoming a professor, Benth worked 3 years as a consultant for the oil industry at the Norwegian Computing Centre and researcher at the universities in Mannheim, Aarhus, Oslo and Trondheim.
Rafal Weron, Wroclaw University of Technology (WUT)
Dr. Rafal Weron is affiliated with the Institute of Organization and Management (WUT, Poland) where he is in charge of developing forecasting and risk management models and software for the energy industry. With a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and a habilitation in economics Weron acts as a consultant for energy and finance companies in Poland and abroad. He is the (co-)author of four books and numerous publications in academic and professional journals and gives graduate level lectures on energy and financial markets at Humboldt University-Berlin and WUT.