Author: Alex Edmans
Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School and a leading authority on reforming business to serve the common good – but using solutions based on rigorous evidence and recognising the importance of both investors and stakeholders. He 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'. He also serves as Mercers School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College, where he gave a public lecture series on 'How Business Can Better Serve Society', and on the Responsible Investment Advisory Committee of Royal London Asset Management. He is Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe; has written for the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review; and has appeared live on Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ITV, and Sky News.