Professor Alexander 'Sandy' Pepper

Reward, Governance, and Business Ethics

Sandy Pepper is Professor of Management Practice in the Department of Management at The London School of Economics and Political Science, where he has been teaching and researching since September 2008. He was previously a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he held various senior management roles, including as Global Leader of the Human Resource Services consulting practice from 2002-2006.

Sandy has a BA degree from the University of Durham, awarded in 1981, an MSc degree in 0rganisational change awarded by HEC, Paris in 2006 under a programme run jointly with Oxford’s Saïd Business School, and a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) awarded by the University of Surrey in 2011.  He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Sandy is one of the UK’s recognised experts on executive pay.  His current research and teaching interests focus on corporate governance and business ethics. He is the author of many academic articles, conference papers, and books, including The Economic Psychology of Incentives and Agency Theory & Executive Pay, both published by Palgrave Macmillan. His latest book, If You’re So Ethical, Why Are You So Highly Paid, is due to be published in the autumn.