6 December 2012
Prof. Arnoud Boot (1960) is Professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the UvA and director of the UvA’s Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics. He is also founder and director of the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, Crown-appointed member of the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER), chairman of the Bank Council of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB), and a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Boot began his academic career at Northwestern University (1989-1992). He then worked as a visiting professor at the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden (1993-1995) before becoming director of the Tinbergen Institute (1994-1998). He also worked for the Dutch bank ABN (1987-89) and McKinsey & Co. (2000-2001). Boot is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
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