David Chambers is the Invesco Professor of Financial History at Judge Business School, Cambridge University and co-founded the Centre for Endowment Asset Management which conducts research into long-horizon investing at the same institution. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His research has been published in the leading academic journals in finance and economic history and has been covered by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, Forbes, the Nikkei Shimbun and by the BBC and Bloomberg TV. He received his PhD in 2005 from the London School of Economics. Prior to returning to full-time education in 2001, he worked for 20 years in asset management, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital in Europe, Japan and the United States.