Professor Scott Moeller

Professor Scott Moeller has been teaching at Bayes Business School since 2002. He is the founder and Director of the M&A Research Centre (https://www.bayes.city.ac.uk/faculties-and-research/centres/marc) and the former CEO and Director of Executive Education. Amongst other finance-related modules, he teaches the 'Mergers & Acquisitions' elective in the MBA and 'Corporate Finance' in the executive education programmes. He has also been a visiting lecturer at Imperial College (London) and Oxford University.

Scott is a frequent commentator on business issues related to M&A on television (BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC) and in the press (Financial Times, Sunday Times, Independent) and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the BBC and other publications. One of his seven books received an award in the United States as one of the top 30 business books of the year in 2008 ('Intelligent M&A: Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield' now in a second edition published in 2014) . His most recent book (co-authored) is 'The Deal Paradox: Mergers and Acquisitions Success in the Age of Digital Transformation'.

Scott had a long career in banking prior to his move to academia. During his six years at Deutsche Bank, Scott was Global Head of the bank’s corporate venture capital unit, Managing Director of the Investment Bank's Global eBusiness Division and Managing Director of the department responsible for world-wide strategy and new business acquisitions. Scott worked first at Booz Allen & Hamilton Management Consultants for over five years and then at Morgan Stanley for over twelve years in New York, Japan, and as co-manager and then member of the board of Morgan Stanley Bank AG in Germany. Scott has held a number of other board seats throughout Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas and is currently a non-executive director on several boards. Scott has three degrees from Yale University.