John B. Fullerton

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John B. Fullerton is an American economist, investor, and author of the 2015 booklet, Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Patterns and Principles Will Shape the New Economy.

Biography

Fullerton began his financial career with JPMorgan.{{Cite web |title=John Fullerton |url=https://cbey.yale.edu/our-community/john-fullerton |access-date=2023-04-05 |website=Yale Center for Business and the Environment |language=en}} Following his retirement from JP Morgan, he experienced the September 11 attacks. In 2010, he created the Capital Institute, a think-tank on regenerative economic theory, an attempt to imagine economics and finance in service to life.

During his Wall Street career, John managed numerous capital markets and derivatives businesses around the globe, and was JPMorgan's Oversight Committee Representative that managed the rescue of Long Term Capital Management in 1998, and finally was Chief Investment Officer for Lab Morgan before retiring from the firm. An impact investor, John is the co-founder and Chairman of New Day Enterprises, PBC, the co-founder of Grasslands, LLC,{{cite web|title=Grasslands, LLC|url=http://www.savoryinstitute.com/about-us/board-of-directors|url-status=dead|accessdate=7 January 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140103090116/http://www.savoryinstitute.com/about-us/board-of-directors/|archivedate=3 January 2014}} and a board member of First Crop, and the [https://savory.global/ Savory Institute]. He is an advisor to numerous sustainability initiatives, and is a member of the Club of Rome. John speaks internationally to public audiences and universities, and writes a monthly blog, The Future of Finance, syndicated on The Guardian,{{cite news|last=Fullerton|first=John|title=Sustainable Business Blog|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/john-fullerton|accessdate=7 January 2014}} The Huffington Post,{{cite news|last=Fullerton|first=John|title=The Blog|newspaper=The Huffington Post|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-fullerton/}} CSRWire,{{cite news|last=Fullerton|first=John|title=Talkback Blog|newspaper=CSRWire|url=http://www.csrwire.com/blog/bloggers/150-john-fullerton/posts|accessdate=7 January 2014}} the New York Society of Security Analysts’ blog,{{cite news|last=Fullerton|first=John|title=The Finance Professionals' Post|newspaper=New York Society of Security Analysts|url=http://post.nyssa.org/.services/blog/6a0120a8cdef2c970b01310f35122b970c/search?filter.q=john+fullerton|accessdate=7 January 2014}} and other publications. He has appeared on PBS Frontline,{{cite news|date=24 April 2012|title=Frontline|newspaper=PBS|url=http://video.pbs.org/video/2226666502|accessdate=7 January 2014}} and been featured in pieces by the New York Times,{{cite news|date=2 May 2013|title=An Effort to Add a Key Ingredient to the Slow Food Movement: Investor Money|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/02/us/a-bid-to-put-money-behind-slow-food-movement.html?_r=0|accessdate=7 January 2014}} Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal,{{cite news|date=30 January 2013|title='Sustainable' Investment Firm Has Its Work Cut Out|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324610504578273691268123494|accessdate=7 January 2014}} Barrons,{{cite news|date=10 July 2013|title=The Financial Returns of Grass|newspaper=Barrons|url=http://blogs.barrons.com/penta/2013/07/10/the-financial-returns-of-grass|accessdate=7 January 2014}} WOR radio, Real News Network, INET, Think Progress, The Laura Flanders Show on GRITtv,{{cite news|date=3 December 2013|title=John Fullerton on College Investment Funds: Are Fossil Fuels the New Slavery?|newspaper=GRITtv|url=http://grittv.org/?video=john-fullerton-carbon-crisis-fossil-fuels-finance|accessdate=7 January 2014}} and The Free Forum Show with Terrence NcNally.

Early life

Fullerton received a BA in economics from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.{{cite web |title=John Fullerton |url=https://cbey.yale.edu/our-community/john-fullerton |website=Yale Center for Business and the Environment |access-date=19 January 2023}}

Publications

  • [http://www.centerforneweconomics.org/publications/essays/fullerton/john/the-relevance-of-ef-schumacher-in-the-21st-century "The Relevance of E. F. Schumacher in the 21st Century,"] (Schumacher Center for a New Economics, May 2008).
  • [http://capitalinstitute.org/blog/big-choice-0#.UsxEA2RDsYR "The Big Choice,"] (Future of Finance Blog, July 2011).
  • [http://capitalinstitute.org/blog/financial-overshoot#.UsxETmRDsYR "Financial Overshoot,"] (Future of Finance Blog, July 2012).
  • “[https://capitalinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EDI-CAPITALINSTITUTE.pdf Evergreen Direct Investing],” (2013)
  • [http://greattransition.org/document/limits-to-investment "Limits to Investment,"] (Great Transition Initiative at Tellus Institute, April 2014).
  • [https://capitalinstitute.org/regenerative-capitalism/ “Regenerative Capitalism: How Universal Principles And Patterns Will Shape Our New Economy],” (2015)
  • “[https://capitalinstitute.org/finance-for-a-regenerative-world/ Finance for a Regenerative World],” (2018)
  • “[https://newsociety.com/books/f/a-finer-future A Finer Future : Creating an Economy in Service to Life],” with Hunter Lovins, Stewart Wallis, Anders Wijkman (2018)

References