Alex Edmans

Education

Ph.D., financial economics, MIT Sloan School of Management

Summary of Experience

Professor Edmans specializes in corporate finance, corporate governance, responsible business, and M&A. He has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos; testified on corporate governance in the UK Parliament; presented to the World Bank board of directors as part of its Distinguished Speaker Series; and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talks “The Pie-Growing Mindset” and “The Social Responsibility of Business,” which have more than 3 million combined views. He has written for The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, and World Economic Forum and been interviewed by Bloomberg, the BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports. 

A Fulbright Scholar, Professor Edmans coauthored (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen) the latest edition of Principles of Corporate Finance, a leading finance textbook. His other books include Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit (a Financial Times Book of the Year) and May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It. A former managing editor of The Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe, Professor Edmans serves as non-executive director of The Investor Forum and on Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing Advisory Board, Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Council, and Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. Prior to London Business School, he was a tenured professor at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Edmans has won 30 awards for his teaching, was featured in the Thinkers50 Radar, and was named Professor of the Year by Poets&Quants. Before his academic career, Professor Edmans was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.