Denise Hearn is a writer, applied researcher, and advisor focused on how economic power and paradigms shape our world. Hearn holds an MBA from Oxford Said Business School and advises governments, financial institutions, companies, and nonprofits on antitrust, economic policy, and new economic thinking. Hearn is currently a Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (02018) with Jonathan Tepper.

Hearn's work is published in The Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post and she currently writes the Embodied Economics newsletter. Hearn is also Advisory Board Chair of The Predistribution Initiative -- a multi-stakeholder project to improve investment structures and practices to address systemic risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change.