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Meagan Thompson-Mann is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance. She is currently leading research on three Millstein Center initiatives:  on independent leadership of mutual fund boards; how proxy voting advisors and their institutional investor clients set, approve, and implement proxy voting guidelines and guard against conflicts of interest; and on the role of the independent chairman on a corporate board.

Prior to joining the Millstein Center, Ms. Thompson-Mann was the Corporate Governance Counsel for Railpen Investments, the investment arm of the Railways Pension Trustee Company Limited, the UK’s sixth-largest pension fund, with assets under management of over $40billion. At Railpen, Ms. Thompson-Mann was responsible for proxy voting decisions and execution across Europe, North America and the Far East, and engaged with corporate boards and government bodies on governance issues. She represented Railpen at the UK’s influential Corporate Governance Forum and Performance Pay Group, and founded and chaired the Japan Focus Group, which brought together UK institutional investors with an interest in Japanese Governance issues. During her time at Railpen, Ms. Thompson-Mann also chaired a sub-committee of the International Roundtable on Executive Remuneration which examined how fund managers integrate compensation data into voting decisions.

In addition to her current role at the Millstein Center, Ms. Thompson-Mann also serves as the elected secretary of the Global Institutional Governance Network, which facilitates governance discussion amongst over 20 major international institutional investors. She is also a non-executive director of the UK Social Investor Forum, and is the President of MCTM Governance LLC, which provides governance consulting services. She is a member of the International Corporate Governance Network, and a former member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Ms. Thompson-Mann holds a B.A. from Yale University, a M.A. from the University of Bristol, and completed her legal education at BPP Law School in London, with a focus on commercial litigation.