Dear Colleague,

 The Commodity and Energy Markets ANNUAL MEETING 2017 follows in the footsteps of a long standing series of Energy Finance meetings that held their first event in London in 2004 and nowadays represents the benchmark academic conference in the area. The conference is jointly organised by the University of Oxford and the Energy and Commodity Finance RESEARCH CENTER （ECOMFIN） at ESSEC Business School.                           

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS​

​ SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

·  Carol Alexander（University of Sussex）

·  Fred Espen Benth（University of Oslo）

·  Derek Bunn（London Business School）

·  Álvaro Cartea（Oxford University）

·  Jaime Casassus（Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile）

·  Pierre Collin-Dufresne（Swiss Finance Institute）

·  Anna Creti（University Paris Dauphine）

·  Rita D'Ecclesia（University of Rome La Sapienza）

·  Jerôme Detemple（Boston University）

·  Sam Howison（Oxford University）

·  Ronald Huisman（Erasmus University）

·  Scott Linn（University of Oklahoma）

·  Rüdiger Kiesel（University of Duisburg-Essen）

·  Nikos Nomikos（CASS Business School）

·  Marcel Prokopczuk（Leibniz University Hannover）

·  Michel Robe（American University）

·  Sofia Ramos（ESSEC Business School）

·  Andrea Roncoroni（ESSEC Business School）

·  Ehud Ronn（University of Texas at Austin）

·  Nicola Secomandi（Carnegie Mellon University）

·  Duane Seppi（Carnegie Mellon University）

·  Ke Tang（Tsinghua University）

·  Luca Taschini（London School of Economics）

·  Rafal Weron（Wroclaw University of Technology）

·  Sjur Westgaard（Norwegian University of Science and Technology） 

TOPICS

 The conference covers all areas of energy finance and commodity finance, including: 

·  Asset pricing and hedging

·  Contract securitisation and derivative structuring

·  Risk measurements and management

·  Asset management and portfolio allocation

·  Trading strategies and operations

·  Macro market analysis and microstructure

·  Corporate finance of producers and end consumers

·  Long-term investment financing

·  Regulation（EMIR, REMIT, MIFID, Dodd-Frank）

·  Quantitative financial modeling

·  Econometric analysis and statistics

·  Physical operations management

·  Real options and physical asset valuation

·  Decision theory