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William H. Janeway is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Research Council. He is a Distinguished Affiliated Professor in the Faculty of Economics of Cambridge University and a Special Limited Partner of Warburg Pincus. He joined Warburg Pincus in 1988 and was responsible for building its information technology investment practice: Dr. Janeway is a Director of O’Reilly Media. He is founder of the Janeway Institute for Economics and of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF) at the University of Cambridge. He is a Director of Cambridge in America of which he served as Chair of the Board 2004-2014. He was co-founder of the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is the author of Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018). 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.