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Scott Moeller is Professor in the Practice of Finance at Bayes Business School, City, University of London where he also is the director and founder of the M&A Research Centre. Scott is a frequent commentator on business issues on television (BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC) and in the press (Financial Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, Independent, Newsweek). He sits annually as an industry judge regarding deals and market participants in the UK, Europe and the Middle East. Before teaching at Bayes, he was a visiting lecturer at the business schools of Imperial College (London) and Oxford University.
His most recent book, published in September 2016 for The Economist business book series, is entitled Why Deals Fail & How to Rescue Them: M&A Lessons for Deal Success (co-authored with Michel Driessen and Anna Faelten). He has co-authored Intelligent M&A: Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield now in a second edition (John Wiley, 2014) which received a number of awards. Scott has also written Surviving M&A: Making the Most of Your Company Being Acquired (John Wiley, 2009). He edited other books on M&A and Finance, including Finance Essentials: The Practitioners’ Guide (Bloomsbury, 2012) and The M&A Collection: Themes in Best Practice (Bloomsbury, 2014).
Scott had a long career in banking prior to his move to academia. During his six years at Deutsche Bank, Scott was Global Head of the bank’s corporate venture capital unit, Managing Director of the Investment Bank's Global eBusiness Division and Managing Director of the department responsible for world-wide strategy and new business acquisitions. Scott worked first at Booz Allen & Hamilton management consultants for over five years and then at Morgan Stanley for over twelve years in New York, Japan, and then as co-manager and then member of the board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Germany. Scott has held a number of other board seats throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas and is currently a non-executive director on several boards.
Scott is a graduate of Yale College (BA with honours), the Yale Graduate School (MA) and the Yale School of Management (MBA).
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