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Chris Lowney (born 1958) is an American writer, public speaker, and leadership consultant. He is chair of the Board of CommonSpirit Health,[1] the nation's largest nonprofit health system by revenue in 2022.[2] He was formerly a managing director of J.P. Morgan.
Born in New York City, Lowney attended Regis High School,[3] a Jesuit institution in Manhattan, and then entered a Jesuit novitiate. He completed a B.A. in History and an M.A. in Philosophy at Fordham University (both in 1981) and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He left the Jesuit seminary in 1983 and worked at JP Morgan from 1983 to 2001. At Morgan, he was an investment banker to Fortune 1000 companies and, later, a managing director in Tokyo and Singapore, where he served on Morgan's Asia-Pacific management committee. Later, as a managing director in London, he served on Morgan's Europe, Mideast, and Africa management committee.[4]
After leaving Morgan in 2001, Lowney authored six books and co-authored two more. He has delivered talks and conferences on leadership, decision-making, and business ethics throughout the U.S. and in Spain,[5] France, Australia,[6] Argentina, Uruguay,[7] Colombia,[8] Indonesia, and many other countries.
He is chair of the Board of CommonSpirit Health,[9] the nation's largest nonprofit health system by revenue in 2022.[10]
Lowney founded Pilgrimage for Our Children's Future,[11] which funds education and healthcare projects in the developing world. He helped launch Jesuit Commons-Higher Education at the Margins, which offers university-level education in refugee camps.[12] He conceived and co-founded Contemplative Leaders in Action, a young adult leadership formation program active in seven cities.[13]
Lowney is Catholic.
Lowney has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Gonzaga University,[14] St. Louis University,[15] the University of Scranton,[16] the University of Great Falls, and Marymount Manhattan College, Chestnut Hill College,[17] Wheeling Jesuit University,[18] and Fairfield University,[19] and Albertus Magnus College.[20]
He was named a miembro honorario del claustro at Peru's Universidad del Pacifico,[21] was 2009 commencement speaker at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines,[22] and delivered the 2012 JRD Tata Oration at XLRI in India.[23]
Lowney writes a regular column on leadership for Forbes[24] and for Aleteia.[25] His other authored works include:
