Brian Tomlinson

Brian is the Research Director of CECP’s Strategic Investor Initiative, leading research efforts to accelerate the development and impact of long-term plans as a key element in corporate-shareholder communications. Through proprietary research, analysis of the presentations at CEO-Investor Forums and structured collaborations with supporting organizations, he helps develop decision-relevant, user-friendly tools for our investor and corporate stakeholders.

Brian’s work on sustainable business and investment has been published and featured by MIT Sloan Management Review, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Harvard Business School, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, Top 1000 Funds, the World Economic Forum, the FT, Forbes, the Huffington Post and Responsible Investor among others.

Brian is an expert in fiduciary duty, sustainable business and investment practice. Brian has a decade of experience as a corporate finance attorney specializing in leverage finance and financial restructuring and worked in the business turnaround group of an investment bank.

Brian also served as the Managing Director of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism. As a research fellow at Harvard, Brian worked with Professor Rebecca Henderson, Professor Roberto Unger, the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, and Professor Robert D. Putnam. Brian has authored several reports on investor Fiduciary Duty, including on capital markets in the US, UK, Japan, Canada, Brazil and South Africa – and a report on the role of sustainability in corporate pension plans.

Brian has an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and a degree in politics, philosophy and economics from the University of Oxford.