Gianna A. Z. Bern is president of Brookshire Advisory and Research, Inc., a registered invesment advisory firm focused on energy investment research, risk management, and credit portfoliio management.

Gianna is a registered investment advisor and energy analyst with over 20 years of experience in the energy sector, risk management trading, corporate finance, credit portfolio management, and corporate banking.  Gianna is working on her first book on the energy markets with publisher Bloomberg Press (New York).  Gianna is frequently quoted on energy markets in Bloomberg News, Dow Jones Newswires, and other major media.   Gianna also is a faculty member of The Oxford Princeton Programme, the leading provider of education to the energy and commodity futures markets.

Prior to Brookshire, Gianna was a senior director in Fitch Ratings’ Latin America Corporate Finance group and was responsible for rating Latin American corporate issuers in the energy sector including oil, gas, and utilities.  Before joining Fitch, Gianna was the credit portfolio manager of a leading commercial lease finance company where she managed a $2.5 billion commercial finance lease portfolio.

Previously, Gianna was a manager of risk management trading at BP Amoco Plc where she was responsible for selling and hedging NYMEX-traded futures contracts on crude oil, gasoline, and distillate for commercial clients and providing energy industry research and analysis for energy traders.  Before the merger of Amoco Corporation and BP Plc, Gianna was a senior energy analyst at Amoco Oil.  Gianna has a BBA from Illinois Institute of Technology and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.