Ghadessi, Maryam

Maryam Ghadessi is a senior policy analyst. In the Energy Division Ms. Ghadessi provided technical support to Commissioner offices and Administrative Law Judges (ALJs) on a wide range of regulatory issues pertaining to General Rate Cases (GRC), Cost of Capital, and utility finances. Ghadessi has been involved in teaching courses in finance and economics at various campuses of the California State University. In particular, Ms. Ghadessi has been involved in teaching an upper division course in Finance, Business Finance, at San Francisco State University over the past several years. Prior to joining the CPUC Ms. Ghadessi held an assistant professorship position in the Department of Accounting and Finance at Monash University in Australia where she taught courses in corporate finance, asset pricing, and financial market structure at undergraduate and graduate levels and conducted research in Finance. She is Ph.D., Economics, University of Utah, M.A., Economics, University of New Hampshire and BA., Economics, San Francisco State University.