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Dr. Tom Gosling
Biography
Dr Tom Gosling is an Executive Fellow at ECGI. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow in the Law School at LSE and an Executive Fellow in the Department of Finance at LBS where he contributes to the evidence-based practice of responsible business by connecting academic research, public policy, and corporate action. His research interests include sustainable finance, investor stewardship, corporate governance and executive pay and he has published on these topics in the Journal of Financial Economics, the Capital Markets Law Journal, Human Relations, and the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. In addition he has worked on a number of practitioner-oriented reports including collaborations between PwC and LBS on the question of whether and how executive pay should be linked to ESG targets and between The Investor Forum and LBS on the question “What does Stakeholder Capitalism Mean for Investors”.
Tom has 20+ years of experience as a board adviser and is a leading independent authority on corporate governance and responsible business. Most recently he was a senior Partner at PwC where he established and led the firm’s executive pay practice, advising a large number of FTSE-100 and equivalent private and European companies on corporate governance and executive pay.
Prior to joining PwC, Tom was a Research Fellow in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. He has a PhD in Applied Mathematics and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
As part of his role, Tom engages extensively with policymakers and regulators. He sits on the FCA’s Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee, the FRC’s Stakeholder Insights Group, and has participated in a joint PwC and London Business School team commissioned by BEIS to fulfil the Government’s manifesto commitment to study the impact of share buybacks on executive pay and investment. Tom has given evidence to the BEIS Select Committee and the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards.
Tom is a regular commentator in print, broadcast, and social media. He has hosted a number of podcasts for ECGI and LBS including the ECGI Conversations series and co-led an exploratory project on the question “Does Sustainable Investing Work?” for ECGI.
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