Dr. David A. Walker is the John A. Largay Professor and director emeritus of the Capital Markets Research Center at Georgetown University. He was recently elected to membership in the Cosmos Club. He is currently a consultant to the World Bank analyzing sharing public services with the private sector in The Philippines. He has been a member of the business school quality assessment team for the Israeli Council on Higher Education and chair of the Board of Trustees, president, and program chair for Financial Management Association International, representing 4,000 academicians and practitioners. Dr. Walker previously served as executive editor of the Journal of Financial Research and co-editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance.

After serving as Director of Research for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and senior financial economist for the FDIC, Dr. Walker joined the Georgetown faculty in 1980. He has chaired many Georgetown search committees and served as Associate Dean for the MBA Program during its initial accreditation. Previously he taught at Northwestern University and the Pennsylvania State University. His complete resume can be found at www.msb.edu/walker and he is biographed in Who’s Who in America.


Dr. Walker has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Promontory Financial Group, Nathan Associates, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Dunkin’ Donuts, Safeway, and numerous law firms. He was the expert economist for Dr. Steven Hatfill, exonerated and compensated by the Department of Justice as the person of interest in the anthrax investigation. Dr. Walker has been qualified as an expert economist by eight Federal and local courts. He has testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Debt and Leverage, the House Committee on Small Business on Small Business Credit Costs, and the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Financial and Technological Innovation.

Dr. Walker has published seven books and monographs and 60 scholarly, peer reviewed articles on global and domestic financial service firms, financing small business, mutual fund performance, and monetary and fiscal policies. His recent published papers include: “Impacts of TARP on Commercial Banks,” in Journal of Applied Finance, forthcoming. ”Long-Run Credit Growth in the U.S,” in Journal of Economics and Business, “Costs of Short-Term Credit for Small and Large Firms,” in Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, “Impacts of Bank Acquisitions on Shareholder Returns” in Bank Accounting & Finance, “Predicting Presidential Election Results” in Applied Economics, and “Emerging Markets’ Deficits, Privatization, and Interest Rates” in Economia Internazionale.

Professor Walker teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on global financial markets and institutions, applied macro-economics, and managerial economics. He has lectured in Australia, China, Estonia, Hungary, India, Japan, Poland, The Czech Republic, The Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand and was selected for a Fulbright Award in India.