ProfessorFranklin Allen

Franklin Allen is Professor of Finance and Economics and Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London since July 2014. In August 2019 he became the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in the Business School, from August 2020-June 2023 the Vice-Dean (Research & Faculty) and from September 2023-August 2024 the Interim Dean.

He was at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from September 1980 – June 2016 and is Emeritus there. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center. He was Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and 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 and the British Academy. He received his doctorate from Oxford University.

Dr. Allen's main interests are corporate finance, asset pricing, and financial crises. He is a co-author with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers of the eighth through thirteenth editions and with Alex Edmans as well of the fourteenth and fifteenth editions of the textbook Principles of Corporate Finance.