Professor Simon Taylor
Professor Simon Taylor is a Management Practice Professor in Finance, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Specialisms
After degrees in economics from Cambridge, Oxford and the LSE, Simon Taylor began 15 years of experience in the City, mainly as an equity analyst at JPMorgan and Citigroup. He joined Judge Business School as a Lecturer in Finance in April 2007. He was the Director of the Master of Finance programme from its start in 2008 till the summer of 2018. He is a research associate of the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge University.
In 2009, he was awarded a Pilkington University Teaching Prize. He is a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge and chairs the College Investment Committee. His book about the British nuclear power industry was published in 2007 and his book on the history of nuclear power in the UK was published in March 2016. His work on nuclear power was awarded the Judge Business School prize for research impact in 2017. He was awarded a Judge Business School teaching prize in 2019.
In 2021, Simon became the Director of the new Global Executive MBA (GEMBA), to be taught mainly in Cambridge, but with some teaching in other countries.