Benjamin Laker

Professor Benjamin Laker is Director of Impact and Global Engagement and Professor of Leadership at Henley Business School. He also serves as Postgraduate Research Director for the department of Leadership, Organisations and Behaviour.

Benjamin is an expert on social prosperity who uses interdisciplinarity inquiry to study economic inequality. His research, published by the British Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, the Journal of Consumer Research, and Organizational Research Methods, has popularised 'meeting-free days' and 'four-day working weeks'.

Benjamin writes books and articles for the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and The Washington Post, garnering frequent literary acclaim from The Economist, Time, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is often asked to advise HM Treasury and attend United States House Select Committee hearings that supply public policy recommendations to the United States Congress and the Biden-Harris administration. In his next public address, at the British Embassy in Helsinki, Benjamin will explore Europe's energy crisis and examine the implications of windfall taxes on energy companies with lawmakers from around the world.

Specialisms

• Economic Inequality
• Internationalisation
• Societal Prosperity

Experience

• Harvard Business Review Contributor 2016 –

• Henley Business School Professor 2018 –

• MIT Sloan Management Review Contributor 2020 –

• Forbes Contributor 2020 –