Michael Moffett, Ph.D.
Continental Grain Professorship in Finance
and Associate Professor
Areas of Expertise:
Multinational financial management, Treasury management, Financial management of the
oil and gas industry
Professional Bio:
Dr. Michael H. Moffett is an associate professor of finance and holds the Continental
Grain Professorship in Finance at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He also is
the academic director of the school’s Thunderbird International Consortia, partnership
programs among globally focused companies in Thunderbird Executive Education.
A three-time recipient of Thunderbird’s Outstanding Professor Award, Michael’s areas
of expertise include international financial management and the financial management
issues unique to the oil and gas industry. He is well known for his knowledge on the
financial management of multinational firms, with a focus on cash flow and capital
requirements for effective strategy execution, the valuation of subsidiaries, repatriation of
profits, and management of financial risk.
ABOUT THUNDERBIRD:
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business with nearly 70 years of experience
in developing leaders with the global mindset,
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necessary to create real, sustainable value
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world. Dedicated to preparing students to be
global leaders and committed global citizens,
Thunderbird was the first graduate business
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Honor. Thunderbird’s global network of alumni
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students, working professionals and companies
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success in today’s global economy.
Educating global leaders
who create sustainable
prosperity worldwide.
He is the co-author of The Global Oil and Gas Industry: Management, Strategy and
Finance with Andrew Inkpen (2011), in addition to coauthoring a number of books on
international finance, international financial management, and international business.
His text, Multinational Business Finance, co-authored with Arthur Stonehill and David
Eiteman, is in its 13th edition. For more than two decades it has been broadly considered
the market leader in its field and is used by universities in more than 30 countries.
Michael has authored more than 40 case studies on a variety of global business topics,
and his writings have appeared in the industry’s leading publications, including: Journal
of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of International Financial Management and
Accounting, Journal of International Money and Finance, Contemporary Policy Issues,
Brookings Discussion Papers in Economics, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis.
Prior to joining the Thunderbird faculty in 1994, Michael was an associate professor
at Oregon State University, and has served as a visiting professor at a multitude of
universities around the world including the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, the
University of Hawaii, Manoa, the Bergen Institute (Norway), the Aarhus School of Business
(Denmark), the International Centre for Private Enterprises (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the Indian
School of Business (Hyderabad, India), and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He also is
a former research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
His expertise has been tapped by more than 50 multinational firms in North and South
America, Europe and Asia, and during the past 20+ years he has taught and consulted in
more than 25 countries.
Michael earned his Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1985. He holds an M.A.
from the University of Colorado, an M.S. from Colorado State University, and a B.A. from
the University of Texas at Austin.
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