
Owen D. Thomas (Engineering '83)
Chairman and CEO, BXP
Owen D. Thomas is the Chairman and CEO of BXP. He has served as the CEO and a Director of BXP since April 2013 and was appointed Chairman of the Board in May 2022.
Thomas is a former Director of Lehman Brothers Holdings and served as its first Chairman from 2012 until 2013, when he joined BXP. Prior to Lehman, Thomas was with Morgan Stanley for 24 years, serving in a number of different roles, business units, and locations, including Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Asia and Chairman of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities while living in Hong Kong from 2008 until 2011. He also held the roles of President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate and served on Morgan Stanley's Management Committee from 2005 until 2011.
Thomas serves as the Chair of the Real Estate Roundtable, is a member of the Advisory Board of Governors of NAREIT, and a member of the Economic Club of New York. He is former Chairman of both the Urban Land Institute and of the Pension Real Estate Association and serves on several civic and charitable boards in New York City. He attended and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Woodberry Forest School, and received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.