Enron Experts at UC Berkeley


ATTENTION REPORTERS COVERING ENRON-RELATED STORIES

Enron's collapse has generated media coverage of numerous related issues in fields such as business, finance, law, policy and politics. Below is a list of University of California, Berkeley, experts available to take reporters' calls.

Richard M. Abrams


Professor of history and associate dean of UC Berkeley's International & Area Studies program
Phone: (510) 527-0462 (weekday mornings preferred)
Expertise: Deregulation, business-government relations

Severin Borenstein


E.T. Grether Professor in Public Policy and Business Administration at the Haas School of Business and director of the University of California Energy Institute
Office phone: (510) 642-3689
E-mail: borenste@haas.berkeley.edu
Expertise: Electricity deregulation, market formation and competition, business strategy

Stephen Bundy


Professor of law
Office phone: (510) 642-1970
Expertise: Ethics, destruction of evidence

Sunil Dutta


Assistant professor of the Haas School of Business Accounting Group
Office phone: (510) 643-1229
E-mail: dutta@haas.berkeley.edu
Expertise: Interaction between a firm's disclosure policies and pricing of its securities in capital markets, the role of accrual accounting information in managerial performance evaluation

Jesse Fried


Acting professor of law
Office phone: (510) 642-3932
Expertise: Bankruptcy, insider trading

Terrance Odean


Assistant professor of the Haas School of Business Finance Group
Office phone: (510) 642-6767
E-mail: odean@haas.berkeley.edu
Expertise: Personal investment, retirement

Norman Spaulding


Acting professor of law
Office phone: (510) 642-0330
Expertise: Obstruction of justice

Brett Trueman


Donald and Ruth Seiler Professor of Public Accounting at the Haas School of Business; chair of the Haas School's Accounting Group; and faculty director of the Haas School's Center for Financial Reporting and Management
Office phone: (510) 642-2025
E-mail: trueman@haas.berkeley.edu
Expertise: Accounting practices, managerial disclosure decisions and shareholder litigation

David Vogel


George Quist Professor of Business Ethics at the Haas School of Business;
editor of California Management Review; and political science professor
Office phone: (510) 642-5294
E-mail: vogel@haas.berkeley.edu
Expertise: Ethics, corporate governance, business and politics