Ludovic Phalippou

Fellow of The Queen's College, where I serve on the investment committee and look after the wine cellar, a responsibility taken surprisingly seriously. I also ride road bikes, and I'm Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Oxford.

For more than twenty-five years I've been researching private equity. The more data and information I collected, the more I discovered that many of the industry's accepted "facts" were somewhere between optimistic marketing and complete fiction.

Along the way I've written books and dozens of academic articles, taught thousands of students and executives, advised governments, pension funds and other investors, and somehow collected a few awards. Before all that, I stayed at university longer than most people would recommend, earning degrees from Toulouse School of Economics, the University of Southern California, and a PhD from INSEAD.