Stewart Hamilton has been Professor of Accounting and Finance at IMD since 1981, and Dean of Finance and Administration from 2008 to the end of 2009.

His areas of special interest are corporate failure, governance, risk management, and investor protection.

Formerly a senior partner of a UK national accounting firm, Stewart Hamilton has extensive consulting experience with a wide variety of major European companies. He appears regularly as an expert witness in a wide range of civil litigation cases, including share valuation disputes and professional negligence claims. Professor Hamilton has served on many professional committees and working parties on company law reform, conduct of serious fraud trials, and financial services legislation, and is currently a non-solicitor (lay) member of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland.

Professor Stewart Hamilton has written many articles for the professional and financial press, and is the author of numerous cases on corporate failure, including The Barings Collapse (A): Breakdowns in Organizational Culture & Management, which won the 1999 European Case Awards (Finance) prize; and The Enron Collapse, which won the same prize in 2005. His Mannai Corporation Case won a prize in the 2006 EFMD case competition. He is the author (with Mrs Alicia Micklethwait) of “Greed and Corporate Failure: The Lessons from Recent Disasters”, Palgrave 2006.

Stewart Hamilton is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Institutes of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, of Alberta and of Ontario.