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Dune Thorne is a partner at Brown Advisory, an investment advisory firm managing over $170B in assets where she serves on the executive committee and as the chief strategy officer. Her work is focused on multi-generational planning for global families and family offices with a focus on engaging women and sustainable and impact investing.
In 2010 she founded Invest in Girls, a non-profit focused on financial literacy for under-represented high-school girls that works with over 6,000 girls across the country and is continuing to grow and expand through its combination with the Council for Economic Education.
Dune has been honored with numerous awards, including the Top 50 Women Leaders of Massachusetts, Advisor One’s Top 50 Women in Wealth, WP+ Theater Trailblazer Award, EV Kids Youth Champion Award, World Economic Forum’ Young Global Leader, and Boston Business Journal’s Emerging Leader. Dune authored her own TEDx talk, “Jump to the New S Curve: Unleash the Power of Inclusion”.
Dune attended Harvard Business School and was the recipient of the Summer Social Enterprise Fellowship in 2003. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College in economics where she was captain of the nationally ranked Women’s Lacrosse team and received All-Ivy Academic Honors. She is a graduate of the Boston Center for Community & Justice Lead Boston Program, the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Leadership in Energy Innovation and Environmental Consideration at Princeton University.
Dune serves as president of the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Foundation and serves on the board of Income Research & Management, Anchor Capital, Women’s World Banking, Middlesex School as well as the investment committee of The Museum of Fine Arts.
Ms. Thorne has three children, loves to ski, run and be outdoors and lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
