Alex Edmans — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Finance at London Business School and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College.
Author of 'Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit', a Financial Times Book of the Year, and 'May Contain Lies' (2024).
Co-author of 'Principles of Corporate Finance' with Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen.
Serves as a non-executive director of the Investor Forum and on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing.
Holds a PhD in Financial Economics from MIT, earned as a Fulbright Scholar.
Gave the TED talk 'What to Trust in a Post-Truth World' (2 million views) and TEDx talks 'The Pie-Growing Mindset' and 'The Social Responsibility of Business' (combined 3 million views).
Named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021 and has won 26 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS.

Biography

Alex Edmans is a Professor of Finance at London Business School and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College. He holds a PhD in Financial Economics from MIT, which he earned as a Fulbright Scholar, and previously served as a tenured professor at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His early career included two years as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.