Arnoud Boot is professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam. Next to that he is fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and chairman of the European Finance Association (EFA). Currently he serves as council member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and leads the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance (ACCF)

Previously he was chairman of the Bank Council of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and crown member of the Social Economic Council (SER). In addition, he was connected to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University in Chicago.