Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance, London Business School, and Author, May Contain Lies

Alex Edmans is a Professor of Finance at London Business School and an expert in the use and misuse of data and evidence. He has given the TED talk "What to Trust in a Post-Truth World" with 2 million views, spoken at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and testified in the UK Parliament.

Alex served as Managing Editor of the Review of Finance, the leading academic finance journal in Europe. He has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review, and been interviewed by Bloomberg, BBC, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, NPR, Reuters, Sky News, and Sky Sports. He was previously a tenured professor at Wharton and an investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Alex’s first book, "Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit," was featured in the Financial Times Best Business Books of 2020 and has been translated into nine languages. Alex was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021 and won 25 teaching awards at LBS and Wharton. Alex has a BA from Oxford and a PhD from MIT as a Fulbright Scholar, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

London Business School professor explains how to improve your critical inquiry skills

“People will claim that something is rigorous because it’s by an authority figure or it’s written in a book. But anyone can write a book.”

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