The Professor of Business at Gresham College, London, gives free educational lectures to the general public. The college was founded for this purpose in 1597, when it appointed seven professors.
The chair was created in 1985, sponsored by the Mercers' School Memorial Trust, administered by the Worshipful Company of Mercers. It was originally named the Gresham Professor of Commerce, but in 2018, it was renamed to Gresham Professor of Business.
| Name | Started | |
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| 1. | Jules Goddard [1] | 1985 |
| 2. | Jack Mahoney SJ [2] | 1988 |
| 3. | Walter Eltis [3] | 1993 |
| 4. | Tom Cannon [4] | 1996 |
| 5. | Daniel Hodson [5] | 1999 |
| 6. | Avinash Persaud [6] | 2002 |
| 7. | Michael Mainelli [7] | 2005 |
| 8. | Kenneth Costa [8] | 2009 |
| 9. | Douglas McWilliams [9] | 2012 |
| 10. | Jagjit Chadha OBE [10] | 2014 |
| 11. | Alex Edmans [11] | 2018 |
| 12. | Raghavendra Rau [12] | 2022 |
| 13. | Daniel Susskind [13] | 2025 |
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