He gave the TED talk What to Trust in a Post-Truth World, on confirmation bias and the importance of being discerning with evidence, which has 2 million views.
Edmans studied at St. Paul's School, London and then received a BA in Economics and Management from Merton College, Oxford.
After two years at Morgan Stanley, he earned a PhD in Financial Economics from MIT Sloan School of Management as a Fulbright scholar.
Edmans' research is on corporate governance, executive pay, the real effects of financial markets, and behavioral finance, and has been cited 18,250 times.
His work covers topics such as the role of blockholders (large shareholders) in disciplining management,[12] the importance of long horizons in executive pay,[13][14] how managers learn from financial markets to guide their real decisions,[15][16][17] and the effect of sentiment on the stock market.