Ingo Walter is Vice Dean of the Faculty and Seymour Milstein Professor of 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, and served a number of terms as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chair of International Business, Chair of Finance and Director of the New York University Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions from 1990 to 2003. Since 1985 he has also been affiliated with Insead in Fontainebleau, France, and serves as a consultant to various corporations, banks, government agencies and international institutions. Prof. Walter’s principal areas of academic activity include international trade policy, international banking, environmental economics, and economics of multinational corporate operations. He has published papers in most of the professional journals in these fields and is the author of some 16 books, most recently Mergers and Acquisitions in Banking and Finance, published in 2003 by Oxford University Press, and Governing the Modern Corporation, likewise published by Oxford University Press in 2006.