Gresham Professor of Commerce

The Professor of Business at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to ten and in addition the college now has visiting professors. The Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce chair was created in 1985; in 2018 it was renamed the Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Business.

The Professor of Business is always appointed by the Mercers' School Memorial Trust, which is administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers. One of the early 18th-century professors, John Ward, was the author of a book about the professors, published in 1740.

List of Gresham Professors of Business
NameStarted
1.Jules Goddard1985
2.Jack Mahoney SJ1988
3.Walter Eltis1 September 1993
4.Tom Cannon1 September 1996
5.Daniel Hodson1 September 1999
6.Avinash Persaud1 September 2002
7.Michael Mainelli1 September 2005
8.Kenneth Costa1 September 2009
9.Douglas McWilliams1 September 2012
10.Jagjit Chadha2014
11.Alex Edmans2018[1]

References
  1. "Professor of Business - Professor Alex Edmans". Gresham College. Retrieved 24 October 2018.

Further reading
  • Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. London: Printed by John Moore in Bartholomew lane for the author, and sold by W. Innys [et al.] (reissued by Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, 1967)
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