Colin Mayer
Colin Mayer is the Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at the Blavatnik School of Government and the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College and St Anne's College, Oxford. Mayer is an expert on all aspects of corporate finance, governance and taxation, the regulation of financial institutions and the role of the corporation in contemporary society. His research is primarily on the international comparative nature of corporate finance and corporate governance and the relation of these to financial markets. He has consulted for numerous large firms and for governments around the world, and has been actively involved in policy discussions in the UK, Europe and internationally. Mayer served as the Chairman of Oxera, where he assisted in building the company into one of the largest independent economic consultancies in Europe. He was a Founding Director of the energy modeling company, Aurora Energy Research.
Colin Mayer Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Emeritus Professor of Management Studies
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Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies
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Professor of Economics and Finance
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Professor of Corporate Finance and Director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Institutions
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Harkness Fellow
Academic History
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D.Phil., Economics
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B.Phil., Economics
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B.A., Engineering Science and Economics
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Board of Trustees, Oxford Playhouse
Co-Chair, Scottish Government Business Purpose Commission
Member, UK Government Natural Capital Committee
Member, International Advisory Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India
HONORS & RECOGNITION
Fellow, Center for Economic Policy Research
Fellow, European Corporate Governance Institute
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
EARLY CAREER
Mayer was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University and a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England.
He was the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, ULB.
He has had visiting positions at Columbia, MIT and Stanford universities.
He was a founding editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and a founding co-editor of the Review of Finance.
He was the first professor at the Saïd Business School in 1994, the Peter Moores Dean of the Business etween 2006 and 2011, and the first Director of the Oxford Financial Research Centre between 1998 and 2005.
CONSULTING
Mayer is frequently called upon as a keynote speaker by governments, regulators and academic institutions.
He has acted as an advisor and contributed to debates about the financing of industry, corporate governance and corporate control in the European Commission.
He has also advised and consulted for the OECD, and the World Bank amongst many other international organisations.
He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and assisted in establishing prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe.