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NYU Stern School of Business

EDWARD I. ALTMAN

Edward Altman is Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, NYU. He received his MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Altman has an international reputation as an expert on corporate bankruptcy and credit analysis. He was named Laureate 1984 by the Hautes Etudes Commerciales Foundation in Paris for his accumulated works on corporate distress prediction models and procedures for firm financial rehabilitation and awarded the Graham & Dodd Scroll for 1985 by the Financial Analysts Federation for his work on Default Rates on High Yield Corporate Debt. He is currently an advisor to the Centrale dei Bilanci in Italy and a member of its Scientific and Technical Committee. He is Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance and the Wiley Professional Banking and Finance Series. Professor Altman has published over a dozen books, including: Recent Advances in Corporate Finance; Investing in Junk Bonds; Default Risk, Mortality Rates and the Performance of Corporate Bonds; Distressed Securities; Analyzing and Evaluating Market Potential and Investment Risk and his most recent work, Corporate Financial Distress and Bankruptcy, 2nd edition. He has been a consultant to government agencies, major financial and accounting institutions and industrial companies.