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

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, Futures Industry magazine, and FMA Online.

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.