Elroy Dimson

Elroy Dimson is Research Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, and Bye-Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is Co-founder and Chairman of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge. Formerly, he was Chairman of the Strategy Council for Norway’s sovereign wealth fund and Chairman of the Policy and Advisory Boards of FTSE Russell. He is a permanent member of the American Finance Association and Former President of the European Finance Association. He is an elected Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, the Royal Historical Society and CFA UK. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and formerly the US Financial Economists Roundtable. He serves on the CFA Research Foundation review board, the Geneva Finance Research Institute supervisory council, and several boards.

Dimson’s research is on long-horizon investment, endowment strategy, responsible investing, and financial history. Books include "Triumph of the Optimists," "Global Investment Returns Yearbook," "Financial Market History," "Endowment Asset Management," "Cases in Corporate Finance," and "Stock Market Anomalies." With Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, he compiles the DMS Global Investment Returns Database, a resource widely used by financial institutions, researchers and regulators. His work has been cited extensively in The Economist, Financial Times, The Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Barron’s and The Investors’ Chronicle. He recently received the PAM Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the investment industry.