Bios for Symposium Presenters

William M. Bateman
Edward Bodmer
Kenneth Rose
John E. Kwoka
A.J. Goulding

William M. Bateman has over eight years of electric utility and consulting experience.  As a Project Manager at GDS Associates he has been performing consulting services in a wide range of areas for transmission and distribution cooperatives and municipal electric systems. This includes consulting on transmission contracts for services, analysis of market, Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) procedures and participation requirements, review of locational marginal pricing, transmission billing and settlements, and Control Area development.

Prior to joining GDS Associates, Mr. Bateman worked in various Engineering roles at one of the largest generation and transmission cooperative in the country.   He holds a Master of Business Administration from Georgia State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Edward Bodmer provides financial and economic consulting services and he teaches professional development courses in an assortment of finance and modeling topics throughout the world.  His consulting activities include developing project finance, corporate and simulation models, providing expert testimony on financial and economic issues regulatory agencies, and advisory services to support merger and acquisition projects.

Mr. Bodmer was formerly Vice President at the First National Bank of Chicago where he directed analysis of energy loans and also created financial modeling techniques used in advisory projects. Mr. Bodmer received an MBA degree specializing in econometrics from the University of Chicago and a BS degree in finance from the University of Illinois.  He has authored many articles and is in the process of completing a textbook on valuation of electricity assets. 

Kenneth Rose is an independent consultant and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Public Utilities at Michigan State University. Dr. Rose is a nationally recognized expert with more than twenty years of research experience in the structure, economics, and regulation of U.S. electricity markets. Dr. Rose's areas of expertise include electricity wholesale and retail market restructuring, market power, and market monitoring.

Dr. Rose has previously been a Senior Institute Economist at The National Regulatory Research Institute at Ohio State University and a lecturer for the School of Public Policy and Management at OSU. Prior to NRRI, Dr. Rose worked on many energy related issues at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Rose received his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

John E. Kwoka is the Neal F. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. He is also a Research Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Organization Society, a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Industrial Organization, and an ENCORE Fellow. He has previously served as President of the Industrial Organization Society, Vice President of the Southern Economics Association, Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization, and member of the Editorial Boards of several academic journals.

Dr. Kwoka has previously taught at the George Washington University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University and Northwestern University. He has also been a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and served in various capacities at the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Communications Commission.

A.J. Goulding is President of London Economics International LLC. He has extensive experience working with private investors, regulators, and market institutions in the electric power sector on valuation, strategy, regulatory and market design issues.  He has served as an expert witness and in a number of regulatory forums, in arbitration and court proceedings, and advised governments in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia on market restructuring principles and tariff design.  A.J. regularly teaches courses on recent developments in power industry at Columbia University.