Alex Edmunds

Alex Edmans is a professor of finance at London Business School. He is an expert in corporate financing, corporate social responsibility, practical investment strategies, and behavioral finance. Edmans combines his profound academic rigor with practical business experience in a unique way. He graduated from Oxford University with first place in his class and then joined Morgan Stanley to work in investment banking in the London area and securities trading in New York. Later, Edmans became a finance professor at Wharton School of Business, where he received a PhD in finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded a lifetime position. Edmans has won a total of 14 teaching awards in the past six years. He served as the Faculty Gradation Speaker for the 2014 MBA School Graduation Ceremony and was the highest evaluated finance professor in the MBA program before his departure. At LBS London Business School, he won the Outstanding Teaching Award for the 2016 MBA Class and served as the Faculty Orientation Speaker for the 2017 MBA Class, as he was voted by the highest evaluated professor and first-year student in the entire school. Edmans co led a conference on behavioral economics at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2014. He co created a solution to the housing crisis in the United States with others, which was named one of the 50 best inventions of 2010 by Time magazine. He also co invented the concept of providing subsidies to managers of debt to prevent them from taking excessive risks, which has been implemented by some banks and advocated by global policy makers.