Wm. Polk Carey is a trustee emeritus of Johns Hopkins University and the founder of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.
Carey is the founder and chairman of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC, a leading specialized investment banking firm headquartered in New York City, with operations world-wide. He is also chairman of the W. P. Carey Foundation.
Educated at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and holder of honorary doctorates from Arizona State University, the City University of New York, and the University of the South, Carey served as the executive in residence at the Harvard Business School in 1999.
Carey also served for many years on the Visiting Committee of the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania, and, along with Nobel Laureate Lawrence R. Klein, helped establish the University's Institute for Economic Research (PIER). In January 2003, the W. P. Carey Foundation endowed Arizona State University’s W. P. Carey School of Business, which is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona and has Executive MBA programs in China and Mexico.
