Alex Edmans
Prof Alex Edmans
Professor of Finance
Alex is Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex has a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.
Alex has spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, and given the TED talk “What to Trust in a Post-Truth World” and the TEDx talk “The Social Responsibility of Business” with a combined 2 million views. He is also Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, currently giving a public lecture series on “Business Skills for the 21st Century.” His book, “Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit”, headed the list of FT Business Books of the Month for March 2020. He has featured on Poets and Quants Best 40 Professors Under 40 and Thinkers50 Radar.
His powerful TEDx talk shows that profit is a natural by-product of responsible business and is well worth watching……
