Patrick Bolton

Barbara and David Zalaznick Professor Emeritus of Business and Professor Emeritus of Economics Finance at Columbia University, Visiting Professor of Finance at Imperial College London

Patrick Bolton is Professor of Finance at Imperial College London and senior advisor to the Lazard Climate Center. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He has co-authored Contract Theory (2005) with Mathias Dewatripont, The Green Swan: Central Banking and Financial Stability in the Age of Climate Change (2020) with Morgan Despres, Luiz Pereira Da Silva, Frederic Samama, and Romain Svartzman, and Money Capital: New Monetary Principles for a More Prosperous Society (2024) with Haizhou Huang.