Simon Zadek

Simon Zadek is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Morphosis, where he drives the firm's strategic direction, drawing on deep policy networks across sustainable finance, climate and development. He was previously the founding Chief Executive of Geneva-based non-profit organisation, NatureFinance. He is a member of the Club of Rome, a Senior Fellow at the Paulson Institute, an Honorary Fellow at the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability at the Geneva Graduate Institute, and a Senior Advisor to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures. He has held leadership roles with the UN, including Co-Director of the UNEP Finance Inquiry, Senior Advisor on Sustainable Finance in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General, and lead on the UN Secretary General's Taskforce on Digital Financing of the SDGs. He served as Sherpa of the G20 green finance work track under the Chinese, German and Argentinian Presidencies, and has held academic roles at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, and Singapore Management University. Simon has a Ph.D is widely published including the award-winning book The Civil Corporation and most recently ‘Time to Plan for a World Beyond 1.5C.