Mike Rothman is a Senior Managing Director and head of ISI's integrated oil research. Prior to joining ISI, Mike was First Vice President and Chief Energy Strategist for Merrill Lynch. He joined that firm in 1984, and as a member of the global energy team was responsible for formulating the company's short, intermediate and long-term term outlooks for the petroleum and natural gas markets, which were integrated into equity, debt, strategy, economic and emerging markets research. In 2004, he was named as the co-global coordinator for the Merrill Lynch energy team, which ranked #1 in the Global Research Survey by Institutional Investor magazine.
Aside from his responsibilities at ISI, Mike serves as an outside consultant on oil market matters to government and quasi-governmental organizations, and he's been attending the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meetings since 1986. In 2006, Mike was ranked #1 in independent energy research by Institutional Investor magazine.
Mike holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Business Economics, and a Masters of Science in Applied Economics/Econometrics, both from Rutgers University. |