Tim Nguyen

Tim has been teaching undergraduate and graduate economic and public policy courses beginning in 2007 at Brown University, and he has more than 26 years of experience in finance and executive management. He has held multiple board seats on various for-profit and not-for-profit institutions. He is currently on the board of the UAFRS (Uniform Adjusted Financial Reporting Standards) Council. UAFRS is an alternative set of standards for reviewing and analyzing financial statements aimed at creating more reliable and comparable reports of corporate financial activity. In 2016, he served as the Chief Investment Officer of the State of Rhode Island. Prior to joining this public fund, he worked at two other large institutions—the University of Connecticut Foundation (not-for-profit organization) and the Texas Treasury (public sector organization). For more than 11 years, he served as the Research Coordinator for the Traumatic Brain Injury Model Initiative System nestled at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital located in Boston, MA (which is one of the largest rehabilitation facilities in the United States and is the official teaching partner of the Harvard Medical School).

In addition to earning his doctoral degree (Business Administration) from Case Western Reserve University, he currently holds seven other graduate degrees from the following institutions (with an eighth one en route in Anthropology and a graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies to be conferred come Summer 2026--both from the University of Pennsylvania): Brown University (Development Studies where his thesis advisors include: anthropologist Kay Warren, sociologist Paget Henry, and economist Louis Putterman), Columbia University (Public Policy/Public Administration), Dartmouth College (Cultural Studies where his thesis advisors include: Native American legal scholar Bruce Duthu, Native American historian Colin Calloway, and distinguished Americanist Donald Pease), Middlebury College (English), Northwestern University (Management & Organizations), University of Pennsylvania (Law), and Yale University (Religion). He has completed extensive graduate coursework at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice of Dartmouth College (Public Health), Case Western Reserve University (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine), and at Princeton University. His undergraduate degree in Political Science and Psychology (as a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, and the National Golden Key Society) is from the University of Houston, magna cum laude.

By way of academic distinction, he has been a Legal Humanities Fellow at the Collegium Institute at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 2021 (and is currently the Philosophy of Finance Fellow), a Doctor of Management Fellow of Nonprofit Management, and a Doctor of Management Fowler Fellow for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at Case Western Reserve University. Other academic societies which he is a member include: The Academy of Management, the International Humanistic Management Association, the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, the Native & Indigenous Studies Association, the American Anthropological Association, Law & Society Association, the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Program, and the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities.