tyson timmer

Tyson Timmer

Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Evaluating and influencing corporate practice

Tyson is a PhD student at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. He is interested in corporate sustainability governance, measurement, and accountability. Tyson holds a MS degree in Natural Resources and the Environment from the University of Michigan, where he studied sustainable systems and industrial ecology at the School of the Environment and Sustainability, and a BS degree in Industrial Technology from Western Washington University, where he studied hybrid vehicle design at the Vehicle Research Institute. Tyson’s previous professional experience includes craft chocolate sales, financial services operations, oilfield environmental compliance, and aerospace manufacturing engineering. 

Projects

Corporate Sustainability Transparency Index

The key to sustainability progress is understanding where we are and where we want to go. Using publicly disclosed information from the S&P 500, the Open For Good™ initiative has collected sustainability…

OFG

Corporate Sustainability Disclosure

Firms have an outsized role in shaping the environmental and social trajectories of our global society. As investors, policy-makers, and the general public increasingly demand transparency to evaluate firms’ impacts,…

Recent Publications