The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series in Financial Economics at CCNY, April 30

President Vince Boudreau, The City College Fund & The 21st Century Foundation invite you to The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series in Financial Economics on Monday, April 30 at 1:30p.m. in Shepard Hall, Room 350. Guest speaker Dr. Viral V. Acharya’s talk is entitled “Global Spillovers: Managing Capital Flows and Forex Reserves.”

The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series in Financial Economics was established by Dr. Edward I. Altman, ‘63. Professor Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University.

Acharya is a deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and is in charge of monetary policy, financial stability, financial markets operations and regulation, research and statistics, and human resource management.

Prior to joining the RBI, Acharya was the C.V. Starr professor of economics at the Department of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His primary research interest is in theoretical and empirical analysis of systemic risk of the financial sector and its regulation and genesis in government-induced distortions.

For more information, please call 212-650-6532, or email %49le%6ee@ccnyfund.or %67" rel="nofollow"> Ilene@ccnyfund.org . A reception will follow the lecture.

About The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series

The Edward I. Altman Lecture Series in Financial Economics was established by Dr. Edward I. Altman, ‘63. Professor Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the NYU Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions. Prior to serving in his present position, Professor Altman chaired the Stern School’s MBA Program for 12 years. He has been a visiting Professor at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales and Universite de Paris-Dauphine in France, at the PontiFcia Catolica Universidade in Rio de Janeiro, at the Australian Graduate School of Management and MacQuarie in Sydney, University of Western Australia in Perth, Luigi Bocconi University in Milan and CEMFI in Madrid. Dr. Altman was named to the Max L. Heine endowed professorship at Stern in 1988.

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