Boot (born January 2, 1960 – Huizen, Netherlands) is a Dutch economist and professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam.
He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2008.
He currently serves as chairman of the European Finance Association (EFA), and also chairs the Sustainable Finance Lab (SFL), an Utrecht based initiative that stands for the financial stability and the environmental sustainability of finance.
Professor Boot is also council member of the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) and research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London.
Earlier in his career, he was a faculty member at the J.L.
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in the USA.
In 2000-2001 he was a partner in the Finance and Strategy Practice at McKinsey & Company.
From 2006-2014 he was chairman of the Royal Netherlands Economics Association.