Jon Lukomnik

Forbes calls long-time institutional investor Jon Lukomnik one of the pioneers of modern corporate governance. The managing partner of Sinclair Capital LLC, a strategic consultancy to institutional investors, Jon has been the investment advisor or a trustee for more than $100 billion (including New York City's pension funds) and has consulted to institutional investors with aggregate assets of more than $2 trillion dollars. He currently serves as Brandmeyer Fellow for Sustainable Investing and adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Jon also is a trustee for the Van Eck mutual funds where he chairs the governance committee, and Senior Fellow at the High Meadows Institute. He serves on the Board of The Shareholder Commons and the Externality Investment Research Network, and on the Advisory Board of The Investment Integration Project. He previously served as a member of the Deloitte Audit Quality Advisory Committee and the Standards and Emerging Issues Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Internationally, he has been affiliated in various ways with Euronext, the World Bank/International Finance Corporation Investor Task Force, CPA Canada, Jon co-founded the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and GovernanceMetrics International (now part of MSCI). He served for more than a decade as the executive director of the IRRC Institute and is a former Pembroke Visiting Professor of International Finance at the Judge Business School at Cambridge and has taught sustainable finance for Vienna University's program at Harvard. Jon's previous book, "Moving Beyond Modern Portfolio Theory: Investing That Matters", co-authored with Professor Jim Hawleyrk focuses on MPT's inability to deal with systematic risk and provides a coherent finance theory for systems-level investing. It is widely praised as the "seminal" work on system-level investing. He also has co-authored three other academic books about capital markets and corporate governance, several chapter in various textbooks, and more than 200 academic and practitioner papers.