Simon Zadek

Founder & Managing Partner - Morphosis Solutions SA

Simon is Founder & Managing Partner at Morphosis, a transformative adaptation solutions business for the climate-impacted world beyond 1.5°C. Simon’s work over four decades has focused on creating, catalysing, and shaping markets and their enabling policy environment in ways that address sustainable development goals. He has worked with many of the world’s leading businesses, governments, financial regulators and civil society actors in diverse roles, from his founding leadership of NatureFinance and AccountAbility to his senior advisory roles on sustainable finance to the UN Secretary General and the World Economic Forum, to his co-Chairing of China’s first Green Finance Taskforce and steering of the G20’s work on green finance under the Chinese, Argentinian and German Presidencies, to positions in leading academic institutions in China, Europe, the US, and Southern Africa. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Generation Investment Management, and the first Chair of NatureAlpha, a nature data business. He is currently a Member of Club of Rome, Senior Fellow of the Paulson Institute, Senior Advisor to the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), Senior Advisor to NatureFinance and, most recently, the first Distinguished Fellow of the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability at Geneva Graduate Institute. Simon is widely published including the award-winning book The Civil Corporation and most recently ‘Time to Plan for a World Beyond 1.5C”, and has a Ph.D in economics.