# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-altman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:02:06.613Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-altman"
name: "Edward Altman"
slug: "edward-altman"
description: "Edward I. Altman is a Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at New York University's Stern School of Business. He is best known for the development of the Altman Z-score for predicting bankruptcy which he published in 1968. Professor Altman is a leading academic on the High-Yield and Distressed Debt markets and is the pioneer in the building of models for credit risk management and bankruptcy prediction."
tagline: "American academic and corporate finance theorist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1941-06-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.85
  momentum:             0.9375
  historical:           7.689346666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://people.stern.nyu.edu/ealtman/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Альтман, Эдвард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إدوارد ألتمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ادوارد التمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Altman"
    title: "Edvard Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%9E%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD"
    title: "Едуард Олтман"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Altman"
    title: "Edward Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%98%D7%9E%D7%9F"
    title: "אדוארד אלטמן"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%A4%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4_%D4%B1%D5%AC%D5%A9%D5%B4%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Էդվարդ Ալթման"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Altman"
    title: "Edward Altman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q924489"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump