The Infrastructure Finance Challenge

Ingo Walter is Seymour Milstein Professor Emeritus of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at the Stern School of Business, New York University. 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. He served as Director of the New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions (1990 -2003) and Director of the Stern Global Business Institute (2003-2006). He was Vice Dean of the Faculty of the Stern School from 2008 to 2012. Ingo 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, NYU Abu Dhabi, the University of Western Australia and various other academic and research institutions. He also held a joint appointment as Professor of International Management at INSEAD 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 these fields and has authored or coauthored some two dozen books and monographs, and has served as a consultant to various corporations, banks, government agencies and international institutions.  Ingo received his AB summa cum laude and MS degrees from Lehigh University and his PhD degree from NYU, and has been on the faculty at NYU since 1970.