Dr. Joel Berk
Co-founder of the Financial Accounting Institute and FAI’s main instructor for 40 years — teaching utility finance and accounting to over 40,000 attendees from more than 1,000 utilities.
Joel’s signature is making dry material approachable — even when the topic is regulatory accounting. He’s stepping back from live teaching, but his curriculum has been preserved so the next generation of utility professionals can still learn from him.
Education
- B.S., MIT — Civil Engineering
- B.S., MIT — Management
- M.S., Stanford — Civil Engineering
- Ph.D., Columbia — Business
University Teaching
- Instructor, Polytechnic Institute of New York
- Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Industry Experience
Union Carbide — Engineering Department, Management Information Systems
Seminars Prepared & Taught
Trusted by 1,000+ utilities, regulators, and firms
A selection of the organizations that have brought Joel in to teach their teams. See 2,500+ testimonials →
- Adler Pollock & Sheehan
- AGL
- Alabama PSC
- Algonquin Gas Transmission
- AltaLink
- Allegheny Power
- Ameren
- American Gas Association
- American Water Works
- Aqua America
- Arizona Public Service
- AT&T
- Atlantic Electric
- Atmos Energy
- Avangrid
- Avista
- Babcock & Wilcox
- Baltimore Gas & Electric
- Bell Labs
- BellSouth
- Black Hills
- Bonneville Power
- Brandes Investment Partners
- Bridgeport Hydraulic
- British Columbia Telephone
- Brooklyn Union Gas
- Burger King
- Carl Zeiss
- Carolina Power & Light
- Carolina Telephone & Telegraph
- Cascade Natural Gas
- CenterPoint
- Central Hudson
- Central Vermont Public Service
- Century Telephone
- CGCU
- Chase Securities
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- Chelan County PUD
- Chemical Bank Utility Group
- Chugach Electric
- Cincinnati Gas & Electric
- Cinergy
- Citizens Energy
- Cleco
- CNG
- Cogen Technologies
- Columbia Energy
- Columbia University Executive Programs
- Conectiv
- Consolidated Edison
- Consolidated Gas Transmission
- Consolidated Natural Gas
- Consumers Gas
- Contel
- CRTC
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Delaware PSC
- Delmarva Power
- Detroit Edison
- Department of Energy-US
- District of Columbia PSC
- Dominion Resources
- Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
- Drexel Burnham Lambert
- Duke Power
- Duquesne Light
- E.F. Hutton
- ECO Resources
- Edison Electric Institute
- EEI
- Edison Mission Energy
- Edmonton Power
- EIA
- Electric Council of New England
- Elizabethtown Gas
- Emera
- Energy East
- Energy Transfer
- Entergy
- Etobicoke Hydro
- Eversource
- FERC
- Fireman’s Fund
- FirstEnergy
- Florida PSC
- Florida Power Corporation
- Florida Power & Light
- FortisBC
- Freeman & Hawkins
- Great Lakes Gas Transmission
- Grant County PUD
- Grant Thornton
- GPU
- GTE
- Guess & Rudd
- Gulf Power
- Hawaiian Electric
- HEI
- HELCO
- Hoffman LaRoche
- Houston Lighting & Power
- Hydro One
- Idaho Power
- Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
- Illinois Commerce Commission
- Illinois Power
- Indiana Gas
- Integrys Energy
- Iroquois Pipeline
- ITC
- IURC
- Johnson & Higgins
- Jones Intercable
- JP Morgan
- Keyspan Energy
- KPMG Peat Marwick
- Lawson Lundell
- L.F. Rothschild
- LILCO
- Manufacturers Hanover Utility Group
- Massachusetts OAG-DPU-DOER
- MATS
- MCI
- McGuireWoods
- Metropolitan Edison
- Middle South Utilities
- Minnesota Power
- Minnesota PSC
- Minnegasco
- Montana Dakota Utilities
- National Fuel Gas
- National Grid
- NE Gas
- New England Electric System
- New England Telephone
- Newfoundland Power
- New Mexico PSC
- New York Telephone
- NextEra Energy
- NICOR
- NIGAS
- NiSource
- NJ American Water
- NJ Division of Ratepayer Advocate
- NL Hydro
- Northeast Utilities
- Northern States Power
- Northwest Central Pipeline
- Northwest Natural Gas
- Northwest Territories Power
- Nova Scotia Power
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- NV Energy
- NYNEX
- NYSEG
- Oklahoma Gas & Electric
- Omaha Public Power District
- ONEOK
- ONE Gas
- Old Dominion Electric Power Coop
- Ontario Power Generation
- Orange & Rockland
- Orlando Utilities Commission
- Otter Tail Power
- Pacific Bell
- Pacific Gas & Electric
- Pacific Enterprises
- PacifiCorp
- Pacific Power
- Pacific Telesis
- Panhandle Eastern
- Paul Weiss Rifkind
- PECO Energy
- Penelec
- Pennsylvania Electric
- Pennsylvania Power & Light
- Pepco
- PHI
- Philadelphia Suburban Water
- PJM
- PNM
- Portland General
- Potomac Electric Power Company
- PPL
- Prudential Capital
- Prudential Power Funding
- Prudential-Bache Securities
- PSE&G
- PSI
- Public Service of Colorado
- Public Service New Mexico
- RUA
- RUS
- Rutgers Exec Mgt Program
- Salt River Project
- San Antonio Water System
- Santee Cooper
- Sarnoff
- SAWS
- SDG&E
- Sempra
- Sharyland
- Sierra Pacific Power
- Source Gas
- South Central Bell
- South Dakota PSC
- South Dakota PUC
- Southern California Gas
- Southern California Edison
- Southern Company
- Southwestern Bell
- SWWC
- Sprint
- Swidler Berlin
- Tampa Electric
- TECO
- Texas PUC
- Texas RRC
- Three Cities Research
- Toledo Edison
- TransAlta Utilities
- TransCanada
- TransCanada Pipelines
- Tucson Electric Power
- TVA
- UBS Warburg
- UGI
- United Illuminating
- United Telephone
- United Water
- University of Georgia-PULP
- University of Idaho-UEC
- US Generating Company
- US Department of Energy
- US State Dept. Omsk, Russia
- US West
- Utilicorp
- Vermont DPS
- Vermont PSB
- Virginia Power
- We Energies
- Wisconsin Electric
- Wisconsin Public Service
- WUTC
- Xcel
- Yankee Gas
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