William J. Chambers

Dr. William J. Chambers is a credit and financial risk consultant with Chambers Consulting in Boston. He has provided expert reports and/or served as an expert witness in cases before the U.S. Tax Court, the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Australia and various other regulators and tribunals. He is an associate professor of finance (emeritus) at Boston University’s Metropolitan College, where he taught both graduate and undergraduate courses in finance from 2005-16. Prior to joining Boston University, Dr. Chambers spent 22 years in the credit-rating division of S&P Global Ratings. While at S&P, he undertook and supervised credit analyses on corporate entities, utilities, financial institutions and governmental entities. For several years, he oversaw and was responsible for the credit ratings for all corporate entities domiciled outside the U.S. Throughout his work at S&P, he also was actively involved in the development, approval and implementation of credit-rating criteria and procedures. Prior to joining S&P, Dr. Chambers was the director of research for a real estate consultancy based in Toronto, a senior economist for a regional municipality in Ontario, and the director of financial planning for a large real estate developer in Dayton, Ohio. He received his B.A. from the College of Wooster in economics and history, and his M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.