Christopher L. Culp

Christopher L. Culp studies structured finance and securitized products, derivatives, risk management, and insurance/ reinsurance.

He is the author of a number of articles and books, including Risk Transfer: Derivatives in Theory and Practice and Structured Finance & Insurance: The ART of Managing Capital and Risk.

Culp is a senior advisor to Lexecon in Chicago and director of Risk Management Consulting Services, Inc. He is a former independent non-executive director of IDACORP, Inc., and Idaho Power Co. in Boise, Idaho, and has held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago Partners LLC, and GT Management Asia Ltd. His practical experience gives him regular exposure to how firms are addressing the topics he discusses in class. In addition to providing live case studies, they keep him informed about the topics that are most important to corporate financial managers at any given time.

He earned a bachelor's degree from the Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from Chicago Booth.

Outside of research, Culp enjoys snow skiing, hiking, racquetball, classical music, French wine, and reading (mostly spy novels).

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Selected Publications

Structured Finance & Insurance: The ART of Managing Capital and Risk (Wiley, 2005).

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Risk Transfer: Derivatives in Theory and Practice (Wiley, 2004).

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Co-editor (with William A. Niskanen), Corporate Aftershock: The Public Policy Lessons from the Collapse of Enron and Other Major Corporations (Wiley, 2003).

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The Risk Management Process: Business Strategy and Tactics (Wiley, 2001).

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Co-editor (with Merton H. Miller), Corporate Hedging in Theory and Practice: Lessons from Metallgesellschaft (Risk Books, 1999).

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