Timothy Werner is a professor of business, government, and society and the Eleanor T. Mosle Fellowship holder at The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business. He has taught courses on corporate political strategy, studies in global management, and the management of social and political risk. Before joining McCombs, Werner worked as an assistant professor of political science at Grinnell College.

Werner is an accomplished researcher and academic, studying how companies manage their institutional environments through corporate political activity and corporate social responsibility, as well as how these efforts intersect with their corporate governance. He has published numerous papers for journals including the Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, and the Strategic Management Journal. His most cited article discusses how social activism affects the willingness of politicians to associate with targeted businesses. Werner has also written a book, “Public Forces and Private Politics in American Big Business,” that explores the political motivations behind organizational decisions to adopt self-regulation policies that go beyond compliance with state, federal, and local law.

Werner earned a B.A. in political science with honors from Rice University. He earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.