April 22, 2009
YORK, Pa. – Robert G. Wilmers, chairman and chief executive officer of M&T Bank Corporation, will deliver the address during York College of Pennsylvania’s commencement exercises at 10:30 a.m., May 16, on the campus mall.
Wilmers will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws during the commencement ceremony, where more than 700 students will receive their diplomas.
Wilmers is chairman and chief executive officer of M&T Bank Corporation and its principal subsidiary, M&T Bank. Wilmers has served in that position since May 1983, when M&T had assets of $2 billion. Today, M&T’s assets total $66 billion.
In 1992, the State University of New York Buffalo School of Management named Wilmers Niagara Frontier Executive of the Year. In 1991, the Greater Buffalo Chamber of Commerce named him Western New Yorker of the Year. He has received honorary degrees from Canisius College (Doctor of Humane Letters in 1988), from Niagara University (Doctor of Commercial Science in 1991) and from the State University of New York at Buffalo (Doctor of Humane Letters in 2004). He was cited by the Buffalo News in 1987 and 1994 as a Citizen of the Year. Most recently, Wilmers received the 2005 American Banker Lifetime Achievement Award.
Wilmers graduated from Harvard College and attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. After working in industry and banking in New York, he served in New York City government and then went on to work at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company.
Wilmers serves as chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation and on the board of directors of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. He served as chairman of the New York State Bankers Association in 2002 and as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1993 to 1998.
Located in southcentral Pennsylvania, York College offers more than 50 baccalaureate majors in professional programs, the sciences and humanities to its 4,600 undergraduate students. The College also offers master's programs in business, education and nursing. A center of affordable academic excellence, York is dedicated to the intellectual, professional and social growth of its students. The College helps them develop a concrete plan to attain academic growth and career success; encourages them to try in the “real world” what they learn in the classroom; and prepares them to be professionals regardless of the career they pursue.
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