Jon Anda

Former Co-Head of Global Capital Markets and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, Chief Sustainability Officer and Vice Chairman of UBS Securities, President of Environmental Defense Fund Environmental Markets Network

Jon Anda is an investment banker, climate activist, and entrepreneur. In his 20-year career at Morgan Stanley he was Vice Chairman of Institutional Securities, co-head of global capital markets, head of equity capital markets, and head of investment banking & institutional equities in Asia. He was named a Managing Director of the firm while a generalist investment banker based in Chicago. Jon stepped down from his position at Morgan Stanley to help develop carbon as a financial market in the US. He joined the Environmental Defense Fund in 2007 as President of the Environmental Markets Network and subsequently became a Visiting Fellow at the Nicholas Institute at Duke University.

He testified before the House Commerce and Energy Committee on Waxman-Markey in 2009 and worked on strategies for the unsuccessful KGL proposals in the Senate the following year. Along with his co-author, Sasha Golub, he later presented his published work on 450ppm policy as an NPV-negative but nonetheless cheap option to hedge the higher uncertainty & skew of climate damages relative to mitigation cost. After serving as chief sustainability officer and a Vice Chairman of UBS Securities, he was EVP Strategy of Energy Points, a lifecycle energy and environmental analytics SaaS business purchased by Lux Research in early 2016. He now consults in ESG Investment and CSR. Jon is a high honors graduate of the University of Illinois in Accounting with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.