CHRISTOPHER
H. BROWNE, a
1969 graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University
of Pennsylvania, has been a trustee of the University since 1991. He
has also served the School of Arts and Sciences as a member of the Board
of Overseers since 1982. He is active on the Trustee Investment Committee
and the Committee on Facilities and Campus Planning. He is president
of the Penn Club of New York and most recently became chair of the Political
Science Visiting Committee in the School of Arts and Sciences.
Chris
Browne has spent his entire career at Tweedy, Browne Company, LLC, a
registered investment advisor with offices in New York and London, and
is president of Tweedy, Browne Mutual Funds. He is also a trustee of
Rockefeller University, and serves on the faculty advisory committee
of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University's Program
in Behavioral Finance. He is a frequent speaker on behavioral psychology
and financial decision making. He is also an amateur architect and landscape
architect, and recently spoke at The Institute for the Study of Classical
Architecture on designing a country house. In addition, Mr. Browne is
a member of the New York Council of the Brookings Institution and The
Council on The National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Thanks
to his generous support, the Christopher H. Browne Center for International
Politics was established at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997.