Elroy Dimson

Elroy Dimson is Professor of Finance and Director of Research at Cambridge Judge Business School, and Bye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is Co-founder and Chairman of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge. He was formerly Chairman of the Strategy Council for Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and Chairman of the Policy and Advisory Boards of FTSE Russell. He is a member of the Financial Economists Roundtable and of the European Corporate Governance Institute, and is a Fellow of CFA UK, the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, and the Royal Historical Society. His research is on long-horizon investment, endowment strategy, responsible investing, and financial history. Books include Triumph of the Optimists, the Global Investment Returns Yearbook, Financial Market History, Endowment Asset Management, Cases in Corporate Finance, and Stock Market Anomalies. He serves on the Geneva Finance Research Institute supervisory council, the CFA Research Foundation review board, and several investment committees.