ALFI European Risk Management Conference
A multifaceted perspective
Alex Edmans 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.
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 25 teaching awards at Wharton and LBS and was named Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His latest book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It will be published by Penguin Random House in April 2024.
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Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School, author, board director and advisor. He brings together his academic expertise with real-world practitioner insights in the field of sustainable investing.
In his keynote speech, Alex will compare and contrast two orthogonal sustainability models: one centered on regulatory compliance, the other – more importantly - on the informed creation of long-term value. Drawing on examples of asset managers’ practices, he will highlight that sustainable investing is not about ticking the regulatory boxes, but about value creation for a wider society and forging a distinctive competitive advantage. Against this backdrop, the question of whether sustainability can and should be quantitatively measured will be raised.
The ALFI European Risk Management Conference is delighted to welcome Alex, TED talk speaker, author of Financial Times Best Books of 2020 and Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants in 2021.
Professor of Finance