CEPMLP - Staff - Dr Jennifer I Considine

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Contact Email: j.i.considine@dundee.ac.uk

Dr. Jennifer I Considine joined the Centre as a Senior Research Associate in August 2006. She is actively pursuing a number of research projects ion the area of Resource Curse, Scottish Energy Policy, Emissions Trading, Russian Crude Oil Supply, and Global Energy Policy. Her latest lists of projects includes acting rapporteur for the Economic and Social Research Council, "Econometric Modelling of Energy and Soft Commodity Prices with Applications". Award Holder: Dr. S. E. Satchell and Dr. A. Sancetta, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Dr. Considine is a Staff Scientist with Innervision Medical Technologies Inc. in Calgary, Alberta Canada. In this capacity, she is responsible for the mathematical and statistical modeling, signal processing and design of a new Ultra High Resolution Imaging technology for the early detection of breast cancer. She currently holds the position of Chief Editor, Energy Politics, an energy newsletter dealing with commercial strategies, and strategic planning in the global energy industry. Dr. Considine is a member of the Board of Directors for Canada Post, and founding member of a number of initiatives to promote Scottish-Canadian relations including the Alberta Friends of Elgin, and the Canadian Friends of Scotland.

Dr. Considine first joined the Centre in September 2003 as Senior Lecturer in Energy/ Petroleum Economics. During the preceding two years, she led a number of projects involving real options valuations of physical assets including electricity generation facilities, storage companies, and natural gas pipelines and contracts, risk management and hedging techniques, and trading strategies for a variety of commodities including natural gas, electricity and crude oil. Dr. Considine has worked with a number of international energy companies, including Ecopetrol, TransCanada Pipelines, Westcoast Energy, Coastal Corporation, Duke Energy, and ANR Pipeline Company. In addition, to her experience in private industry, Dr. Considine has considerable experience as an international energy analyst with the Canadian Energy Research Institute, and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.

Dr. Considine holds a Ph.D. in resource economics from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and a M.A. in International Finance from the University of Chicago. On the research side, Dr. Considine has published a number of books and numerous articles concerning the global energy industry, with a focus on the history and development of the upstream petroleum industry in the Russian Federation. Her latest project: "Transformation and Reform in the Russian Energy Sector", Joint Project on Revitalizing Russian Industry, University of Calgary-Gorbachev Foundation Public Policy Project (UCGF'99), has recently been accepted for publication.

Teaching

Commodity Trading and Strategic Asset Optimisation in the Energy Industry (On-Campus)

The main objective of this course is to help students to understand commercial strategies currently utilized in the energy trading and marketing industry. The module will give a basic introductory overview, and practical applications of the financial and economic theories, and methodologies utilized in real and financial trading activities, options pricing, real options valuation techniques and asset optimization.

Quantitative Methods for Energy Economists I (On-Campus)

The main objective of this course is to help students to understand quantitative methods, and forecasting tools currently utilized in the energy industry. The module will give a basic introductory overview, and practical applications of the basic quantitative theories, and methodologies utilized in forecasting.

Quantitative Methods for Energy Economists II (On-Campus)

The main objective of this course is to help students to understand in detail quantitative methods, and forecasting tools currently utilized in the energy industry. The module is a continuation of Quantitative Methods I, and will give a solid understanding of the quantitative theories used in the energy industry, and methodologies utilized in forecasting.