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Dr. William Janeway

Dr. William Janeway

Senior Advisor

Warburg Pincus

William H. Janeway is Senior Advisor at 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.

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). Dr. Janeway 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 Cambridge University where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University.

Recent Events and Presentations

March 31, 2015

The Innovative State: Governments Should Make Markets, Not Just Fix Them

Join ITIF for a lively panel discussion on governments’ role in fostering innovation in the modern economy.

January 8, 2014

Book Discussion: Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy

ITIF will host a rousing discussion with William Janeway on how best to utilize innovation for economic and social good.

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