Gresham Professor of Commerce

The Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1596/7, when it appointed seven professors; this has since increased to ten and in addition the college now has visiting professors.

The Professor of Commerce is always appointed by the Mercers' School Memorial Trust, which is administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers, and is formally referred to as the Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College. One of the early 18th-century professors, John Ward, was the author of a book about the professors, published in 1740.

List of Gresham Professors of Commerce

	Name	Started
1.	Jules Goddard	1985
2.	Jack Mahoney SJ	1988
3.	Walter Eltis	1 September 1993
4.	Tom Cannon	1 September 1996
5.	Daniel Hodson	1 September 1999
6.	Avinash Persaud	1 September 2002
7.	Michael Mainelli	1 September 2005
8.	Kenneth Costa	1 September 2009
9.	Douglas McWilliams	1 September 2012
10.	Jagjit Chadha	2014
11.	Alex Edmans	2018

External links

• Gresham College website Texts and video of recent lectures
• Gresham College old website, Internet Archive List of professors

Further reading

• Ward, John (1740). The Lives of the Professors of Gresham College. London: Printed by John Moore in Bartholomew lane for the author, and sold by W. Innys [et al.] {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |month=, |chapterurl=, and |coauthors= (help) (reissued by Johnson Reprint Corporation, New York, 1967)