Renée B. Adams

After receiving a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago, Renée held positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Stockholm School of Economics, the University of Queensland and the University of New South Wales. She joined the University of Oxford in 2018.

Renée is an expert on corporate governance. Her research has a strong policy orientation and is highly interdisciplinary, spanning finance, economics, accounting, psychology, and, most recently, comics studies. Her 2009 co-authored paper, “Women in the Boardroom and Their Impact on Governance and Performance,” is the most cited paper in the literature on board diversity. Renée’s interest in diversity is not limited to research: she co-founded AFFECT, the American Finance Association’s committee for women, in 2015 and chaired it until 2020. She also created and teaches MBA and EMBA classes on diversity and inclusion at Saïd Business School. Her recent research focuses on women in the art world, and she is currently exploring comics and art as mediums for conveying challenging scientific ideas.