The Oxford Leadership Prize

Colin Mayer

Colin Mayer is Peter Moores Dean of the Saïd Business School, Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies and Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre.

Mayer has been at the Saïd Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor. He has built an international reputation within the field of finance, has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance, and on the regulation of financial markets. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Mayer was one of two founding partners of Oxford Economic Research Associates (Oxera), now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK. He has also consulted for numerous large firms, such as the BBC, British Airports Authority, British Gas, the London Stock Exchange and United Utilities. He has directed the European Science Foundation Network in Financial Markets and the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In addition to having held visiting fellowships at Stanford, MIT and Brussels University (ULB), where he was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance, he is a Delegate of Oxford University Press and Chairman of Oxera.

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