Jon Lukomnik

Managing Partner for Sinclair Capital, internationally recognized governance expert

Former NYC Deputy Controller for Pensions

Forbes calls Jon Lukomnik "one of the pioneers of modern corporate governance." He has consulted to institutional investors with aggregate assets of $1 trillion and has himself been the fiduciary for assets of more than $100 billion. Jon has been a member of FAS engagement teams serving, among others, the New York City Bureau of Asset Management (BAM), the South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission (RSIC), the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, the School Employees Retirement System (SERS) of Ohio, and the New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYS CRF).

Jon is a member of the Deloitte Audit Quality Advisory Committee, the Standing Advisory Group of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Board of Trustees of the Van Eck family of US mutual funds, insurance trusts and European UCITs. He is also a senior fellow for the High Meadows Institute and was the Pembroke Visiting Professor of International Finance at the Judge Business School, Cambridge University, during January – March 2020.

Jon has served as investment advisor for New York City's pension funds, was the executive director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute, and has been a director for public companies, private companies, not-for-profit corporations and litigation trusts. He was a member of the official creditors committee which rehabilitated WorldCom following its fraud and bankruptcy.

Jon has published 200 articles in academic and practitioner journals. His most recent book is What They Do with Your Money. His previous book, The New Capitalists, was a Financial Times pick of the year.

The International Corporate Governance Network awarded Jon its Excellence in Corporate Governance Prize, the Director and Chief Risk Officers honored him with its inaugural "Exemplar" award and the National Association of Corporate Directors (USA) has three times named him one of the 100 most influential people in American corporate governance. Other awards include recognition by Ethishpere Magazine and Global Proxy Watch.

Jon received his B.A. degree from Columbia University and also completed graduate coursework in public policy and administration at New York University.