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Elroy Dimson is BGI Professor of Investment Management and a Faculty Governor of London Business School, where he has served as chair of the Finance and of the Accounting areas, and as Dean of the full-time and Executive MBA programmes.  He directs the School’s Initiative on Foundation and Endowment Asset Management, and holds board and investment positions with the Norwegian Pension Fund, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity, UnLtd, the University of London, and other organisations. He has served as President of the European Finance Association, as Executive Committee Member of the Financial Economists Roundtable, and as Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance and other journals. Co-author with Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of Triumph of the Optimists (Princeton University Press, 2002) and Global Investment Returns Yearbook (ABN, 2007), and with Shanta Acharya of Endowment Asset Management (Oxford University Press, 2007). He has been appointed to Honorary Fellowships of the UK Society of Investment Professionals and of the Institute of Actuaries. His PhD is from London Business School.

Also see the Initiative on Foundation and Endowment Asset Management.