Walter Clements has been named associate dean of the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.

Clements, also a teaching professor of finance at Notre Dame, will oversee all non-degree and degree programs offered by Mendoza’s Stayer Center for Executive Education, including its Executive MBA programs in South Bend and Chicago, the Master of Science in Business Analytics-Chicago and the Master of Science in Finance-Chicago.

The new associate deanship will work in collaboration with the associate dean for graduate programs and the associate dean for faculty and research.

Clements joined Mendoza in 2012 after teaching for Indiana University for two years. Prior to his teaching career, he worked for 27 years for BP, most recently as CEO and chair of Aral AG, a subsidiary of BP and Germany’s market-leading fuels and convenience store company.

Clements also served on the boards of two international college preparatory schools in Europe and as president of an industry marketing association. He is currently an independent board director for BP Midstream Partners LP, a publicly traded energy firm, and advises inventors in their quest to get their ideas to market.

Clements has taught courses in corporate finance, working capital management, valuation and entrepreneurship at the undergraduate, graduate and executive levels.

Clements earned his bachelor’s degree from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and his master's in business administration from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.