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Senior Advisor & Managing Director, Warburg Pincus
Dr William H Janeway is a Senior Advisor and Managing Director of Warburg Pincus. He joined Warburg Pincus in 1988 and was responsible for building the information technology investment practice. Previously, he was Executive Vice President and Director at Eberstadt Fleming. Dr Janeway is a director of Magnet Systems, Nuance Communications, O’Reilly Media, and a member of the Board of Managers of Roubini Global Economics. He is a Visiting Lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and Princeton University.
Professional experience
Dr Janeway is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge and a Member of the Board of Managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). He is a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council and the board of governors of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and of the Advisory Boards of the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance and the MIT-Sloan Finance Group. He is the author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets Speculation and the State, published by Cambridge University Press in October 2012.
Dr Janeway received his doctorate in economics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University.
News and insights
Research centre news
CERF at 25: milestone is celebrated at Cambridge Judge
The 25th anniversary of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) was celebrated at a 2-day conference at Cambridge Judge Business School that highlighted the research and scholars that CERF has supported over the last quarter-century. Founding benefactors William and Weslie Janeway were among the distinguished guests, who also included Professor Deborah Prentice, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and Professor Gishan Dissanaike, Dean of Cambridge Judge.
Insight
A time to venture?
High risk and a leap in the dark – venture capital isn't for everyone. How can anyone seeking to invest in it gain a better understanding of the risks and potential rewards?
Governance, economics and policy
Does economics need less maths or more?
Has mathematics become too complex and too dominant a force in modern economics? Yes, says Cambridge Judge Business School's Michael Kitson; no, says economist Dr William H Janeway. Here both experts set out their views on what's needed to help avoid a repeat of the recent financial crisis.