Alex Edmans FBA FAcSS is a British academic and economist who is professor of finance at London Business School[1] and Mercers' School Memorial Emeritus Professor of Business at Gresham College.[2] He serves on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on the Future of Responsible Investing[3] and as a non-executive director of the Investor Forum.[4] He is a Fellow of the British Academy,[5] the Academy of Social Sciences[6] and the Financial Management Association,[7] Director of the American Finance Association, and Vice President of the Western Finance Association.
In 2021, Edmans was named Professor of the Year by Poets&Quants.[8] From 2017 to 2022 he served as managing editor of the Review of Finance, increasing its impact factor from below 2 to above 5.[9]
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.[10] He is co-author (with Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin Allen) of Principles of Corporate Finance, a leading corporate finance textbook. 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.