Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance, London Business School 

 

 

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is an expert in corporate finance (corporate governance, executive compensation, M&A, investment/growth/innovation), corporate social responsibility, behavioural finance, and practical investment strategies. Prior to LBS, he was a tenured professor at Wharton, where he won 14 teaching awards in six years.

 

Alex co-led a session on behavioural economics at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos. He co-invented a solution to the U.S. housing crisis, based on behavioural economics, that was named one of the 50 best inventions in 2010 by Time Magazine. Alex was awarded the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible and named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by Yale University for outstanding contributions by a person under 40. His research has been presented to Accenture, Bank of England, Federal Reserve, Goldman Sachs, IMF, McKinsey, and Morgan Stanley; and live-interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, and NPR.