John L. Thornton

John Lawson Thornton
Born (1954-01-02) January 2, 1954
NationalityAmerican
EducationHotchkiss School
Alma materHarvard University (AB)
St John's College, Oxford (MA)
Yale University (MPPM)

John Lawson Thornton (born January 2, 1954) is an American businessman and professor and director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation, chairman of RedBird Capital Partners and non-executive chairman of PineBridge Investments. Thornton stepped down as co-president of Goldman Sachs in 2003.