- Representative Member
Professor Tom Gosling
Biography
Tom Gosling is Professor in Practice and Director of the Initiative in Sustainable Finance within the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is also a Senior Visiting Fellow at the LSE Law School and a member of the Financial Conduct Authority Sustainable Finance Advisory Committee. He was an Executive Fellow at ECGI from 2023 to 2026.
Tom has published on sustainable investing, executive compensation, investor stewardship, and fiduciary duty in finance and law journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Corporation Law, Journal of Financial Regulation, Capital Markets Law Journal, and Human Relations. His co-authored paper Sustainable Investing in Practice: Objectives, Constraints, and Limits to Impact won the PRI Best Academic Paper Prize 2024. He has also written extensively on these topics in practitioner-oriented formats including for the CFA Institute, the Investor Forum, The European Corporate Governance Institute and in blogs and press articles.
Prior to his academic career, Tom had 20+ years of experience as a board adviser. He was a senior Partner at PwC where he established and led the firm’s executive pay practice, advising multinational 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 mathematics.
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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