Prof. Erkip received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and his B.Sc. from Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, in Greece. He has held visiting and research positions at the University of Toronto, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, Columbia University, and Duke University. His research interests are in Computational Finance, Energy Finance, Real Options, Allocation under Constraints, and Enterprise-wide Risk Management.