Thomas C Jackson

Thomas Campbell Jackson is President of the Brandt Jackson Foundation, a private family foundation with diverse interests in the sciences and arts. Through the Foundation and other charitable entities, he is actively engaged in strategic planning and arranging financial support for organizations promoting human health, lifelong humanistic science education, economic literacy, and rational inquiry. He is a Venture Partner at New York-based Easton Capital Investment Group. As the president of Zeitblom Analytics, Mr. Jackson consulted in micro and macro health economics for public and private clients, and for policy think tanks. He has over two decades of experience in public sector health policy, and has held positions in municipal government in Boston and New York City, and also with New York State's largest nonprofit health insurance company. He was Director of the City of New York's Employee Health Benefits Program, administering health coverage for over a million city employees, retirees and their families with a budget of $1.5 billion. Mr. Jackson is a Director of Nanotronics Imaging, and of Imaginal Disc Productions, and is an investor in a variety of science and technology startup companies. He serves on the Board of Overseers of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health (where he is also President of the Board of its Alumni Association); the Board of Directors of the Galen Institute; the Board of Directors of the Metanexus Institute; the Board of Advisors of the Bellevue Literary Press; and the boards of the Imagine Science Film Festival, Music for Life International, and other arts and sciences organizations. Mr. Jackson received a BA in economics and German from Tufts University; studied at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; and earned a Master of Public Health degree in Health Policy and Management from Columbia University.