Thomas Stanton

At Johns Hopkins, Thomas H. Stanton is a lecturer for the Master of Arts in Government program.

Stanton is a former president of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management, former member of the federal Senior Executive Service, and fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has been awarded NAPA’s George Graham Award for Exceptional Service and AFERM’s Enterprise Risk Management Hall of Fame award.

An expert on enterprise risk management in government, Stanton has co-edited two books on topic and has written and edited ten books, alone and with colleagues, including A State of Risk: Will Government Sponsored Enterprises be the Next Financial Crisis, and Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Financial Crisis.

Stanton holds degrees from the University of California (Davis), Yale University, and Harvard Law School.

Awards

• George Graham Award for Exceptional Service, NAPA, 2017
• Enterprise Risk Management Hall of Fame award, AFERM, 2018

Featured Works

• A State of Risk: Will Government Sponsored Enterprises be the Next Financial Crisis, Thomas Stanton, Harper Collins, 1991
• Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail: Governance and Management Lessons from the Financial Crisis, Thomas Stanton, Oxford, 2012