Dune Thorne

Partner, Brown Advisory

Dune Thorne is a Partner at Brown Advisory where she serves on the Executive Committee & is the Chief Strategy officer for the Private Client and Endowment & Foundation Business. Brown Advisory is an investment advisory firm that manages over $140B for institutions and families from fourteen offices globally. Her work has evolved to focus on sustainable and impact investing, diversity and inclusion and the intersection between investing and philanthropy.

In 2010 she founded Invest in Girls, a non-profit focused on financial literacy for under-represented high-school girls that now works with over 4,000 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 EV Kids Youth Champion Award, 2018, World Economic Forum’ Young Global Leader, 2013, Advisor One’s Top 50 Women in Wealth, 2011, and Boston Business Journal’s Emerging Leader 2011. A frequent speaker, radio and television interviewee, Dune authored her own TEDx talk, “Jump to the New S Curve: Unleash the Power of Inclusion” and been quoted in financial journals as well as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Forbes.com.

Dune attended Harvard Business School where she received an MBA and was the recipient of a Summer Social Enterprise Fellowship in 2003. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College in Economics where she was also captain of the Division 1 nationally ranked Women’s Lacrosse team and received All-Ivy Academic Honors. She is also a graduate of the Boston Center for Community & Justice Lead Boston Program and the Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century at the Harvard Kennedy School. 

Ms. Thorne has three children and her personal passions are running, skiing, traveling, being outside and active with her family and doing everything she can to help us build a more equitable and just society.