Ingo Walter

Ingo Walter holds the Seymour Milstein Chair in Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

He has been on the faculty at New York University since 1970. From 1971 to 1979 he was Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and subsequently served a number of terms as Chair of International Business and Chair of Finance. Subsequently he was Director of the New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions from 1990 to 2003 and Director of the Stern Global Business Institute from 2003 to 2006. He served as Vice Dean of Faculty at Stern from 2008 to 2012.

Prof. Walter 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, IESE in Spain and various other academic and research institutions. He held a joint appointment as Professor of International Management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France from 1986 to 2005 and remains a Visiting Professor there.

Dr. Walter's principal areas of academic and consulting activity include international finance and banking. He has published papers in most of the professional journals in these fields, and is the author, co-author or editor of 26 books, including Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking and Finance - What Works, What Fails and Why? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), Governing the Modern Corporation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006),Regulating Wall Street (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2011) and Global Banking 3rd Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).

Prof. Walter received his A.B. (summa cum laude) and M.S. degrees from Lehigh University and his Ph.D. degree from New York University. He has served as a consultant to various corporations, banks, government agencies and international institutions, and has held a number of board memberships.