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Mark P. Taylor is the Donald Danforth, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Finance at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Previously, he was Dean of Olin Business School after holding the same role at Warwick Business School (WBS) at the
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. Before that, a managing director of BlackRock.


Education

Taylor completed his undergraduate degree in
philosophy, politics and economics Philosophy, politics and economics, or politics, philosophy and economics (PPE), is an interdisciplinary undergraduate or postgraduate academic degree, degree which combines study from three disciplines. The first institution to offer degrees in P ...
(PPE) at the
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and holds MSc and
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degrees in economics and finance from
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, as well as an
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in Higher Education from the
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at
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and an MA in English literature from Liverpool University. In 2012, Taylor was awarded a higher doctorate, the degree of Doctor of Science (
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), by the
University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...
.


Academic and business career

Taylor began his career as a foreign exchange trader in the City of
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. From 2006 until 2010 he worked as a managing director at
BlackRock BlackRock, Inc. is an American Multinational corporation, multinational investment company. Founded in 1988, initially as an enterprise risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager ...
. In 2010, Taylor left BlackRock to become dean of Warwick Business School. In December 2016, he became dean of Olin Business School. Taylor has also been a fellow of
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,
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, has held professorships at the University of Dundee,
Cass Business School Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of City St George's, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966. Bayes Business School ...
,
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and at Liverpool University and has been a visiting professor at the
Stern School of Business The Leonard N. Stern School of Business (also NYU Stern, Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business schools, business school of New York University, a private university, private research university based in New York City. Founded ...
,
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, the
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and at the University of Aix-Marseille. Taylor was a senior economist at the
International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 191 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of las ...
, Washington, D.C., for five years and an economist at the
Bank of England The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the Kingdom of England, English Government's banker and debt manager, and still one ...
.


Research background

Taylor is a Nonresident Senior Fellow of the
Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global econo ...
, a Research Fellow of the
Centre for Economic Policy Research The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non-partisan, pan-European non-profit organisation. It aims to enhance the quality of policy decisions through providing policy-relevant research, based soundly in economic schola ...
, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (FRSS), a Fellow of the
Academy of Social Sciences The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) is a representative body for social sciences in the United Kingdom. The academy promotes social science through its sponsorship of the Campaign for Social Science, its links with Government on a variety of m ...
(FAcSS) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (FRSA).


Editorial activities

Taylor is the
editor-in-chief An editor-in-chief (EIC), also known as lead editor or chief editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies. The editor-in-chief heads all departments of the organization and is held accoun ...
of both ''
Applied Economics Applied economics is the application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings. As one of the two sets of fields of economics (the other set being the ''core''), it is typically characterized by the application of the ''core'', i.e ...
'' and its sister journal ''
Applied Economics Letters ''Applied Economics Letters'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering applied economics. It was established in 1994 and is published 21 times per year by Routledge. It is a companion journal to ''Applied Economics''. The editor-in-chief is Ma ...
''. He is also the editor of the ''International Journal of Finance & Economics''.


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Mark Peter Academics of the University of Warwick 1958 births Living people Fellows of University College, Oxford British economists Academics of City, University of London Academics of the University of Liverpool Alumni of St John's College, Oxford Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Fellows of the Royal Statistical Society Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Academic journal editors Business school deans Washington University in St. Louis faculty 20th-century births