Alex is Professor of Finance, London Business School and Managing Editor, Review of Finance. He is heavily involved with practitioners and policymakers in the reform of corporate governance and executive pay, and the embedding of purpose into business. Alex has spoken at Davos, testified in the UK Parliament, given the TED talk "What to Trust in a Post-Truth World" and the TEDx talk "The Social Responsibility of Business." He was appointed (jointly with PwC) by the UK government to study the effect of share buybacks on executive pay and investment. Alex has written for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review and been live-interviewed on BBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, ESPN, Fox, ITV, Sky News, and Sky Sports. Awarded “Rising Star of Corporate Governance” and “Rising Star of Finance”, each for outstanding contributions by a person under 40. PhD in Financial Economics, MIT (Fulbright Scholar); BA, Oxford