Harlan Tufford is a research analyst in MSCI’s Emerging Risk R&D team, developing total-portfolio solutions for AI-driven workforce disruption, the energy transition and other emerging risk areas for investors. From 2020 to 2025, he led MSCI’s corporate governance research team in the Americas, where he oversees the development and application of governance-related methodologies and research commentary for U.S. and Canadian companies.
Prior to joining MSCI in 2020, Harlan held roles as a corporate governance advisor with the Hansell McLaughlin Advisory Group and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), and as a corporate governance researcher with the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness at the Rotman School of Management.
Harlan holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, where he was a Joint Specialist in History and Political Science, and a master’s degree in business law from Osgoode Hall Law School.