Denise Hearn is an author, applied researcher, and advisor. Her research and thought leadership spans interdisciplinary fields, including: antitrust and competition policy, macroeconomics and financial markets, sustainable investment, new economic thinking, and institutional design and strategy. With experience spanning public policy, finance, academia, and nonprofit organizations, Denise translates complex systems into actionable solutions across sectors.

Denise is a Fellow at the Berggruen Institute with the Planetary Program and a Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, a center of Columbia University’s Climate School. Her work at Berggruen will focus on governance frameworks for nature-related data technologies while advancing the emerging field of planetary-data governance research and policy.

Denise is co-author of The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition — named a Financial Times’ Best Book of 2018 – and of The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians (McGill 2024). Denise’s writing has been translated into 12 languages, and featured in publications such as: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fortune, and The Washington Post.

She has an MBA from the Oxford Saïd Business School and a BA in International Studies from Baylor University. ​