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Alex Edmans

Professor of finance at London Business School and academic director of the Centre for Corporate Governance.

RADAR THINKER

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020. 

FAST FACT

Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, won the Financial Times award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education.

FAST FACT

Named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021.

Ideas

Research in corporate finance; behavioural finance; corporate social responsibility; and practical investment strategies. Plus World Cuponomics – the effects of the soccer World Cup on stock markets.

Bio

Graduated from Oxford and then worked for Morgan Stanley. After a PhD from MIT Sloan, joined Wharton in 2007 and was tenured in 2013. Serves on the steering group of The Purposeful Company, which encourages companies to pursue long-run purpose over short-run profit.

Content

TED “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World”, and the TEDx talk “The Social Responsibility of Business”. Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, forthcoming, 2020.

NATIONALITY: British

Media picks

Verdict

“Fresh voice on finance and investment strategies – and much more.”

Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

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