Imperial Business Insights 3:20 event is free to attend but pre-registration is required.
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Event website: https://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/business-school/imperial-business-insights-320/
On 16th January, the Business School will come together to celebrate its research strengths with the first event of the Imperial Business Insights 3:20 speaker series. The aim of the series is to profile some of our most notable academics with three inspiring and thought-provoking presentations (each twenty minutes long) based on state-of-the-art research.
In the first of this series, we invite three of our most esteemed Imperial College faculty members Professor David Gann CBE, Professor Carol Propper CBE, and Professor Franklin Allen, to analyse their specialist areas of business innovation, healthcare and finance. The evening will start with an introduction by the Dean of the Business School, Professor Nelson Phillips and Diane Morgan, Associate Dean of programmes and will finish with a drinks and networking reception.
Imperial Business Insights 3:20 is open to all Business School students, alumni, staff and guests.
About the speakers:
Professor Franklin Allen
Franklin Allen is Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London and has held these positions since July 2014. He was on the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from July 1980 – June 2016. He now has Emeritus status there. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and is currently Managing Editor of the Review of Finance. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, the Financial Intermediation Research Society and the Financial Management Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He received his doctorate from Oxford University. Dr. Allen’s main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through twelfth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance
Professor David Gann CBE CEng FICE FCGI
David is a renowned expert on innovation and an accomplished business and academic leader. He is Imperial College London’s Vice-President (Innovation) and member of the College’s Executive Board. He has deep experience of mentoring start-ups, supporting fast growth technology businesses and developing long-term strategic partnerships with multinational technology corporations. David is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management with a PhD in Industrial Economics. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and a Fellow of the City & Guilds Institute.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to engineering, and received the 2014 Tjalling C. Koopmans Asset Award for extraordinary contributions to the economic sciences. David is Chairman of the Smart London Board. His industrial experience includes serving as Laing O’Rourke plc’s Group Executive for research and innovation between 2007 and 2011. He advises executives and boards on innovation and technology management, including Citigroup, IBM, Huawei, McLaren and Tata Group.
Professor Carol Propper CBE
Carol is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Management and Imperial College Business School, London. She joined the Business School as Professor of Economics in 2007 and was Head of the Healthcare Management group from 2007-2010. More recently she has held an ESRC Professorial Fellowship in the School since 2012. She is currently the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in Imperial College Business School. Before coming to Imperial, she held appointments at the University of Bristol (where she was a cofounder and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation); at the LSE (where she was Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion 1997-2007); as Chair of the ESRC research grants board 2005-2009 and member of the ESRC Council 2005-9; as Advisor to the Chief Executive of the NHS 1993-4; as a member of the Royal Economic Society Council 2001-5 and as a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society. She is a research fellow of CEPR, Europe’s network of leading economists, and a Research Fellow of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
Carol was awarded a CBE for her services to social science in 2010 and elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 2014. Her research interests are the impact of incentives on the quality and productivity of healthcare, the impact of environmental factors on health, and the effect of market incentives on the production of public service. She has published was awarded the Arrow Award for the best paper worldwide in the field of health economics in 2011 and the American Economic Association 2016 prize for the best paper published in the American Economic Journal: Policy.