Severin Borenstein

E.T. Grether Professor of Business Administration and Public Policy in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group of the Haas School of Business, director of the University of California Energy Institute, research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research

Expertise: Gasoline and oil market pricing and competition; U.S. and international airline industry and competition; electricity deregulation, market formation and competition

Background: Borenstein is co-director of the Center for the Study of Energy Markets and a former member of the governing board of the California Power Exchange and the California Attorney General's Gasoline Price Task Force. He has extensive local, state and national interviews. As gas prices soared across the nation in the spring of 2004, Borenstein was in constant demand by the media. In the wake of Sept. 11, he commented on oil and gas market prices. He also studies bankruptcy and government bailouts in the airline industry.

Interviews: A few of his spring 2004 interviews include the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, about gas prices; KCBS radio on the indictment of Reliant energy traders; KTVU TV (Ch-2)on the closure of Shell Bakersfield refinery; and the San Francisco Chronicle about a summer energy warning for California and uncertainty surrounding Pacific Gas & Electric Co. He received his B.A. in economics from UC Berkeley and his Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.