Professor Edward I. Altman Director of Research, Credit and Debt Markets, NYU Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions Edward Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor Emeritus of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and Director of the Credit and Fixed Income Research Programme at the NYU Salomon Center. Professor Altman has an international reputation as an expert on corporate bankruptcy, high yield bonds, distressed debt and credit risk analysis. He is the creator of the world-famous Altman-Z-Score model for bankruptcy prediction of companies globally. He was named Laureate 1984 by the Hautes Études 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 and high yield corporate debt. He was a Founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Banking and Finance. Professor Altman was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Hall of Fame in 2001 and elected President of the Financial Management Association (2003) and a Fellow of the FMA in 2004, and was amongst the inaugural inductees into the Turnaround Management Association’s Hall of Fame in 2008. In 2005, Dr. Altman was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Finance by Treasury and Risk Management magazine and is frequently quoted in the popular press and on network TV. He has been an advisor to many financial institutions including Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, Concordia Advisors, Investcorp and the RiskMetrics Group, (MSCI, Inc.), Paulson & Co., FINRA and Golub Capital. He currently serves on the board of the Franklin Series Funds. Dr Altman is Co-Founder of Classis Capital, SpA, a financial advisor in Italy; and Wiserfunding in London, a fintech in the SME credit analytic space. He is also Chairman of the Academic Advisory Council of the Turnaround Management Association. Professor Altman was a founding trustee of the Museum of American Finance and was Chairman of the Board of the International Schools Orchestras of New York.