Julian Franks

Julian Franks is Professor of Finance at London Business School, and former Academic Director of London Business School’s Centre for Corporate Governance. An expert in corporate finance, his research focuses on bankruptcy and financial distress, corporate ownership and control, shareholder activism by both hedge funds and active asset managers, cost of capital and regulation. His work on ownership and control (with Colin Mayer and Stefano Rossi) has won two international prizes. Two of his other papers have won best paper awards by the Journal of Financial Intermediation. He has been an editor of the Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting, and an associate editor of various other finance journals. He has served as a member of the DTI–Treasury committee reviewing the UK’s insolvency code, as a member of the Company Law Review’s committees on corporate governance, and as a member of the Breedon committee on non-bank sources of finance. He has also been Visiting Professor at the University of California at both Berkeley and Los Angeles, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.