Stuart I. Greenbaum

Stuart Greenbaum is the former Dean and professor emeritus at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the 2006 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Financial Intermediation Research Society. He was namedthe Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership in 2000. Before joining the Olin School in 1995, Greenbaum served for 20 years as a faculty member of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University where he was the Director of the Banking Research Center and the Norman Strunk Distinguished Professor of Financial Institutions. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Kellogg’s Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Before Northwestern, Greenbaum served as Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Kentucky, and on the staffs of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve.

Greenbaum has served on 17 corporate boards. He also served on the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Graduate Management Admission Council, and the board of AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, Executive Committee of the World Agricultural Forum, and on the board of the St. Louis Children’s Hospital. He was thrice appointed to the Federal Savings and Loan Advisory Council, and was twice officially commended for extraordinary public service. Greenbaum has consulted for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Council of Higher Education of Israel, the American Bankers Association, the Bank Administration Institute, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Home Loan Bank System, among others. He has on numerous occasions testified before Congressional committees, as well as other legislative bodies.

Greenbaum has published two books and more than 75 articles in academic journals and other professional media. He is founding editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation and has served on the editorial boards of 10 other academic journals.