Ingo Walter

Ingo Walter holds the Seymour Milstein Chair in Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics Emeritus 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 served as 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 was Dean of the Faculty of the Stern School 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, University of Western Australia and various other academic and research institutions. He also held a joint appointment as Professor of International Management at INSEAD in France and Singapore from 1986 to 2005, and remains a Visiting Professor there.

His current areas of academic activity include international financial intermediation and banking. He has published papers in most of the professional journals in international economics and finance, and is the author, co-author or editor of 27 books, most recently The Infrastructure Finance Challenge (London: OpenBook, 2017).

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

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.

Research Interests

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

Academic Background

Ph.D., Economics, 1966
New York University

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

B.A., Economics, 1962
Lehigh University