Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans FAcSS is a British academic and economist who is professor of finance at London Business School and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College. He serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing and as a non-executive director of the Investor Forum. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Financial Management Association, Director of the American Finance Association and Vice President-Elect of the Western Finance Association.

In 2021, Edmans was named Professor of the Year by Poets&Quants. From 2017 to 2022 he served as managing editor of the Review of Finance, increasing its impact factor from below 2 to above 5.

Edmans' book on the business case for purpose, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was named to the Financial Times best books of 2020. He is co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance, the leading corporate finance textbook (with Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen) from the 14th edition. He gave the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World, on confirmation bias and the importance of being discerning with evidence, which has 2 million views.