Tim Nguyen

At Johns Hopkins, Tim Nguyen is a lecturer in the MS in Applied Economics, MS in Financial Economics, MA in Government, and the MA in Public Management programs, where he draws on a long and distinguished career on Wall Street and more than 26 years of experience in finance and executive management. Nguyen has held multiple board seats on various for-profit and not-for-profit institutions. He currently is on the board of the Uniform Adjusted Financial Reporting Standards Council that develops 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 where he managed more than $16 billion in total assets. Prior to joining this public fund, he worked at two other large not-for-profit institutions—The University of Connecticut and Texas Treasury.

In addition to earning his doctoral degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University, Nguyen currently holds six other graduate degrees: 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), Northwestern University (Management & Organizations), University of Pennsylvania (Law), and Yale University (Religion). He has completed extensive graduate coursework at both The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice of Dartmouth College (Public Health) and at Case Western Reserve University (History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine). 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.