Colin Mayer

Professor of Management Studies
Said Business School, Oxford University

Colin is Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Wadham College, Oxford.

Colin has been at the Saïd Business School since its inception in 1994 and was its first professor and former Dean. He has built an international reputation within the field of finance, has published widely on corporate finance, taxation and governance, and on the regulation of financial markets. He has served on the editorial boards of several leading academic journals and was instrumental in creating the largest and most prestigious networks of economics, law and finance academics in Europe at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI).

Colin is an Ordinary Member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He was one of two early partners of Oxford Economic Research Associates (Oxera), now one of the largest independent economics consultancies in the UK. He has also consulted for numerous large firms, such as the BBC, British Airports Authority, British Gas, the London Stock Exchange and United Utilities.

Areas of Interest

- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance
- Corporate taxation
- Regulation of financial institutions