Alex Edmans

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is an expert in purposeful business, sustainable finance and responsible investing; diversity, equity and inclusion; critical thinking and group decision making; practical investment strategies; the psychology of finance; the use and misuse of data; and time management.

Alex has a unique combination of deep academic rigour and practical business experience. He is particularly noted for his ability to present complex concepts in non-technical language and an engaging, dynamic manner. Alex Edmans 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 3 million views.

Alex is a leading figure in the reform of business to serve wider society. He serves as Non-Executive Director of The Investor Forum and on Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing Advisory Board, Novo Nordisk’s Sustainability Advisory Council, and Royal London Asset Management’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee. The UK government appointed him (jointly with PwC) to study the alleged misuse of share buybacks and the link between executive pay and investment.

Alex is the author of Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit (a Financial Times Book of the Year for 2020), May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It, and the classic finance textbook Principles of Corporate Finance (with Brealey, Myers, and Allen). His latest book, The Madness of Markets: How Smart Investors Make Crazy Decisions – And How To Exploit Them, will be published by Penguin Random House in September 2026. He has won 30 teaching awards and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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