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Susan E. Walton is Principal at Frost Consulting in London and Director of Research and Senior Editor at the BR Johnson Group, New York, NY. Ms. Walton served as Global Head of Electronic Commerce of ABN AMRO Bank from 1995 to 1998. Subsequent to this, Ms. Walton was the Deputy to both the Global Head of Research and Chief Operating Officer of Baring Securities. She also served as the Founder and Chairman of the Brokerage Information Group of BIGAsia, an affiliate of Baring Securities. In these positions she pioneered many internet-based equity research applications that are now commonplace.

Ms. Walton was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She was educated at Harvard University and studied at London Business School and London University. Ms. Walton has served as a committee member and board member of several international, charitable foundations and organizations that support her interest in education and human and animal rights. She has a particular passion in the advancement of young women through higher education, especially in Eastern Europe and the Near East, the region of her ethnic heritage. She now lives in London with her husband where they both devote substantial time and travel in support of her charitable interests.

Susan E. Walton on CERGE-EI
“CERGE-EI's timely mission to educate in higher economics the promising students from the developing world has had a remarkable extra benefit of encouraging the young women from the region who have been doubly neglected in this field in the past. I have been particularly impressed by the impact of this innovative program on the lives of these remarkable women and gratified by the impact they, in turn, are making on the future of their countries and the world.”