95% of Gamblers Quit Before They Win Big: Enron Board of Directors, 1992

Since the dawn of capitalism, greed has plagued the minds and souls of humanity, but the cusp of corporate ambition was achieved in a conference room in Houston, Texas. Enron CFO Andrew Fastow, under crippling pressure from shareholders and his fellow executives, began to concoct manipulative accounting schemes in order to hide Enron’s derailing financials from its stakeholders. As expectations for Enron only grew, so did the company’s deceptions. At a crucial turning point, delegates are expected to protect Enron’s, and their own, financial interests amid the hidden financial company crisis. They must navigate the demands of Enron’s shareholders, who are still unaware of the crisis and expect maximum profit, while managing the political, economic, and legal repercussions of their decisions. In this committee, delegates will maintain stock in the company, allowing them to accumulate both economic and positional power within the Board. Delegates must balance their personal financial ambitions while keeping the company afloat and hiding the “creative” accounting measures from legal and regulatory agents.

By the end of the committee, delegates’ choices will either preserve the largest energy producer in the world, bring its complete downfall, or watch it all burn from the window of a jail cell.

Chair:
Leandro Guevara Neyra

  • Leandro Guevara is part of the Class of 2028 at Georgetown University’s College of Arts and Sciences, tentatively majoring in Government and Public Policy and minoring in Law, Justice, and Society. He calls Lima, Peru, home and attended Lima High School. Leandro started MUN as a freshman in high school and has now been involved for more than 5 years. He served as rapporteur in NCSC LII for Ad Hoc GA and was the Director of ECOFIN in NAIMUN LXII. Now, as Chair of the Enron Board of Directors, he’s excited to attend one more conference alongside Niharika :). Outside of NCSC, Leandro is the USG of GAs for NAIMUN LXIII, a regular parliamentary debater (Spanish world finalist in 2024!), and a volunteer for the Center of Social Justice on campus. He also loves Taylor Swift, overanalyzing movies, watching Peru lose at soccer, getting lost in the city, and eating hot wings.

CRisis Manager:
Niharika Emani

  • Niharika Emani is a student in the McDonough School of Business studying finance and accounting, Class of 2028. She’s originally from San Jose, California (west coast represent!), and misses the California weather more than she would like to admit. She participated in Model UN all throughout high school, and since coming to Georgetown she has immersed herself in the staffing of Georgetown’s MUN conferences. Organizing the conferences that brought her so much joy and excitement in high school has been a nostalgic and riveting experience, and she can’t wait to bring her passion for MUN to NCSC once again (with Leandro!). Outside of NCSC, she serves as the Director of Operations for NAIMUN LXIII as well, bridging her love for MUN with her interest in business to create the best possible conference experience. She also is a massive swiftie, a Victorian literature fiend, and an accounting nerd. Ask her about any of these interests; she will absolutely talk your ears off!

USG: Luke Madden

This committee is in the Non-Traditional Crisis Organ, and your Under-Secretary General is Luke Madden. Committees in this organ are small crisis committees with highly specialized topics and distinct committee procedures.


If you have any questions about your committee, please reach out to l.madden@modelun.org.