Peter Tufano

Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School; Senior Advisor at Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University; Emeritus Professor and Dean at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Peter Tufano is the co-founder and Chairman of Commonwealth. From 2011-2021, he was the Peter Moores Dean and Professor at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, where he advanced a model of embedding the business school in the University to enable the Oxford community to tackle world-scale challenges. In 2016, he was recognized by the Aspen Institute for this work. In 2021, he was part of the founding team of Business Schools for Climate Leadership. In 2022, he returned to the faculty of Harvard Business School as a Professor and also as the Senior Advisor to the Salata Institute of Climate and Sustainability. From 1989-2011, he was a Professor at HBS where he held many roles, including co-founder of the Harvard I-Lab. Peter’s research spans climate finance and climate alliances as well as consumer finance, mutual funds, financial innovation, and financial engineering. His work in consumer finance ranges from field experiments, large scale empirical projects, clinical research, and course development. With Commonwealth, his work is credited with leading to several federal and state policy innovations. Peter earned his Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University, his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School with high distinction as a Baker Scholar, and his B.A. degree in economics, summa cum laude, from Harvard College.