Alex Edmans

BIO

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given TED/TEDx talks with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, and on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Alex’s book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, was a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2020 and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of “Principles of Corporate Finance” (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021.

SKILLS

Finance Professor | Corporate Finance | Responsible Business | Behavioural Finance | Research | Leadership | Public Speaking | Authorship | Financial Analysis | Board Presentations | TED Speaker | Media Appearances | Advisory Roles | Non-Executive Director | Teaching Excellence Accenture, AQR, Bank of America, Bank of England, Barclays, Behavioural Insights Team (“Nudge Unit”), Bloomberg, Bridges, BNP Paribas, CFA Institute, Clifford Chance, Coca-Cola, Coutts, CPPIB, Danone, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, Elliott, Exxon, Federal Reserve, Federated Hermes, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, Google, Grant Thornton, Guardian Masterclasses, Hg Capital, HM Treasury (UK), IMF, Invesco, Investec, IoD, Linklaters, Lloyds, London Stock Exchange, McDonald’s, McKinsey, Morgan Stanley, NatWest, Norges Bank Investment Management, Network Rail, Newton, No. 10 Policy Unit (UK), OECD, Olam, PwC, Rockefeller, SAP, Schroders, SEC, Slaughter and May, Smurfit Kappa, UBS, UN PRI, Unilever, World Bank

ACHIEVEMENTS

+ Professor of Finance at London Business School + PhD in Finance - MIT Sloan (Fulbright Scholar) + Director of the American Finance Association + Vice President-Elect of the Western Finance Association + Managing Editor of the Review of Finance (2017-2022) + TED/TEDx Talks with 2.8 million views + Non-Executive Director of The Investor Forum + Royal London Asset Management Advisory Committee + UK government researcher on executive pay and investment + Author - Grow the Pie | Principles of Corporate Finance + Chess (England Junior and British Squad Champion) + Television - BBC World News (Business Edition From Davos, World Business Report) | Bloomberg Surveillance | Channel 4 | Channel 5 | CNBC (Closing Bell, Squawk Box) | CNN International (Quest Means Business) | ESPN Cold Pizza | Fox Business Network (Money for Breakfast) | ITV London News | Reuters TV | Sky News | Sky Sports | Yahoo Finance