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Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans, Professor of Finance at London Business School, is a leading expert in responsible business. He authored Grow the Pie and May Contain Lies, spoken at Davos, UK Parliament, and TED, with 2.8M+ views, and serves on key advisory boards for sustainable investing and corporate responsibility.

Price Band C: £5K - £10K

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Alex Edmans

Price Band C: £5K - £10K

About Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans FBA FAcSS 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 talks The Pie-Growing Mindset and The Social Responsibility of Business with a combined 2.8 million views. He serves as non-executive director of the Investor Forum, on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Responsible Investing, on Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee, and on Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Council. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was a Financial Times Book of the Year and has been translated into nine languages, and he is a co-author of Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). He has won 26 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. His latest book,  May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It was published by Penguin Random House in April 2024.

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