12th April, 2010

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands
4:00 - 6:00 pm followed by cocktails

The Implosion of US State Finance and Its Effect on the Cayman Islands

Christopher L. Culp, PhD

(Adjunct Professor of Finance
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Senior Advisor Compass Lexecon
a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc.)

Andrew P. Morriss

H. Ross Helen workman Professor of Law and Business University of Illinois College of Law

Speakers Biographies

Christopher L. Culp, PhD

Senior Advisor | Compass Lexecon
(a subsidiary of FTI Consulting, Inc.)

Christopher L. Culp is Senior Advisor with Compass Lexecon, an Adjunct Professor of Finance at The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, an Honorarprofessor at Universität Bern in the Institut für Finanzmanagement, Director of Risk Management Consulting Services, Inc., and an Adjunct Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. He teaches graduate degree courses on structured finance, insurance, and derivatives, and provides advisory consulting services and testimonial expertise in these same areas.

Dr. Culp is the author of four books – Structured Finance & Insurance, Risk Transfer: Derivatives in Theory & Practice, The ART of Risk Management, and The Risk Management Process – and the co-editor of two books – Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Consequences of the Failure of Enron and Other Major Corporations (co-edited with William Niskanen), and Corporate Hedging in Theory & Practice (co-edited with Merton Miller). He has published numerous articles, and is on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, the Journal of Risk Finance, the Journal of Structured Finance, and Futures Industry magazine. Culp holds a Ph.D. in finance from The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a B.A. in economics from The Johns Hopkins University.

Andrew P. Morriss

H. Ross Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business
University of Illinois College of Law

Andrew P. Morriss is the H. Ross & Helen Workman Professor of Law and Business at the University of Illinois College of Law, and a familiar face to Cayman’s financial services industry having spoken at a number of high profile local industry events and holding a seat on the editorial board of local financial services publication, the Cayman Financial Review. Professor Morriss has published a number of books and aritcles on subjects ranging from offshore finance and empirical analysis to environmental and regulatory policy. Professor Morris holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, and graduated with high honours from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law.