Biography

Ingo Walter is the Seymour Milstein Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business, and also serves as Director of the Stern Global Business Institute, an independent academic research center focusing on global economic and management issues.

Professor Walter received his B.A. and M.S. degrees from Lehigh University and his Ph.D. degree in 1966 from New York University. He taught at the University of Missouri - St. Louis from 1965 to 1970 and has been on the faculty at New York University since 1970. From 1971 to 1979 he was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and subsequently served a number of terms as Chairman of International Business and Chairman of Finance as well as Director of the New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions from 1990 to 2003. He has had visiting professorial appointments at the Free University of Berlin, University of Mannheim, University of Zurich, University of Basel, the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and various other academic and research institutions including a collateral appointment as Professor of International Management at INSEAD since 1986.

Professor Walter's principal areas of academic and consulting activity include international trade policy, international banking, environmental economics, and economics of multinational corporate operations. He has published papers in various professional journals in these fields and is the author, co-author or editor of 26 books, including Street Smarts: Linking Professional Conduct and Shareholder Value in the Securities Industry (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997), The Political Economy of European Financial Integration (Manchester, Manchester University Press and Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997), High Finance in the Euro-Zone (London: Financial Times - Prentice Hall, 2000), and Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking and Finance - What Works, What Fails and Why? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). His latest book, co-authored with Roy C. Smith, is Governing the Modern Corporation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Prof. Walter has served as a consultant to various corporations, banks, government agencies and international institutions, and has held a number of board memberships.

Research Interests

• The global financial services industry
• Global investment, trade and monetary issues
• Corporate governance and ethics

Courses Taught

• Global Banking and Capital Markets
• Professional Responsibility
• Risk
• The Global Economy

Academic Background

Ph.D., Economics, 1966
New York University

M.S., Business/Economics, 1963
Lehigh University

B.A., Economics, 1962
Lehigh University

Awards & Appointments

	Bernhard Harms Prize in International Economics
	Stern Teaching Excellence Awards

Selected Publications

V. Acharya, T. Cooley, M. Richardson, I. Walter (2011)
Regulating Wall Street
(New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2011)

G. De Long, R. Smith, I. Walter (2011)
Global Banking
Third Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011)

M. Schmid, I. Walter (2009)
Do Financial Conglomerates Create or Destroy Economic Value?
Journal of Financial Intermediation. Vol. 23, April 2009

N. Krauss, I. Walter (2009)
Can Microfinance Reduce Portfolio Volatility?
Economic Development and Cultural Change. Vol. 58, October 2009

I. Walter (2009)
Economic Drivers of Structural Change in the Global Financial Services Industry
Long Range Planning, Vol. 42, October 2009