About BILL Janeway

 
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William H. Janeway has lived a double life of “theorist-practitioner, according to the legendary economist Hyman Minsky, who first applied that term to him sone 30 years ago. In his role as “practitioner,” Bill Janeway has been an active venture capital investor for almost 50 years. He is a Special Limited Partner of Warburg Pincus, where he was responsible for building the information technology investment practice. As a “theorist,” he is an Affiliated Member of the Faculty of Economics of Cambridge University, where he lectures on Venture Capital and the Economics of Innovation. At Cambridge he is also founder of the Janeway Institute for Economics and of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). He has been a longtime member of the Board of the Social Science Research Council, where he currently serves as Chair, and was a co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.

Bill Janeway is the author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Reconfiguring the Three-Player Game between Markets, Speculators, and the State (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018).  He received his doctorate in economics from Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University.