Prior to returning to full-time education in 2001, Professor Chambers worked for 20 years in investment banking at Barings, Hotchkis & Wiley and Merrill Lynch. He gained experience in asset management, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital in Europe, Japan and the United States. Professor Chambers is Academic Director of the Centre for Endowment Asset Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, an Associate Director of the Centre for Financial History, University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). He sits on the Editorial Board of the Financial Analysts Journal.