Professor Elroy Dimson

Elroy Dimson chairs the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, and is Emeritus Professor of Finance at London Business School. His publications on responsible investing, with Oğuzhan Karakaş and Xi Li, brought active ownership and coordinated engagements into the mainstream. His research focuses on investing for the long term, and he and his co-authors have also become well known for their studies of the investment performance since 1900 of financial assets in 35 countries and real assets such as wine, stamps, art and other collectibles. His publications, with several colleagues, on financial market history, endowment asset management, and responsible investing have been recognised by several awards.

Books include Global Investment Returns Yearbook (with Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton), Financial Market History (with David Chambers), Endowment Asset Management (with Shanta Acharya), and Triumph of the Optimists (with Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton). Publications on active ownership (Review of Financial Studies), real assets (Journal of Financial Economics), financial history (Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis), endowment strategy (Financial Analysts Journal), and factor investing (Journal of Portfolio Management), plus cases on manager selection, real estate, and stocks for the long run (Harvard Business School).

Dimson co-designed the FTSE100 index, and chaired the Advisory and Policy Boards of FTSE Russell. He has served on the Advisory Council of Financial Analysts Journal, the Supervisory Council of the Geneva Finance Research Institute, and the Steering Committee of the Financial Economists’ Roundtable. He formerly chaired the Strategy Council of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, and before going to Cambridge was a Professor and Governor at London Business School. He is a Fellow or Honorary Fellow of CFA UK, the Institute of Actuaries, the Royal Historical Society, the Risk Institute at Ohio State University, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He received the PAM Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the investment industry. His PhD is from London Business School.