Simon Zadek

Co-founder & Managing Partner - Morphosis

Simon Zadek is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Geneva-based adaptation investment platform, Morphosis, and was until recently the founding Chief Executive of Geneva based non-profit organisation, NatureFinance. Currently 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 at the Taskforce for Nature related Financial Disclosure. He has had leadership roles with the UN, including being the Co-Director of the UNEP Finance Inquiry, the Senior Advisor on Sustainable Finance in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary General, and the lead on the UN Secretary General’s Taskforce on Digital Financing of the SDGs. He was the Sherpa of the G20’s green finance work track under the Chinese, German and Argentinian Presidencies. He is widely published, and has had various academic roles including at JF Kennedy School for Government, Tsinghua School for Economics and Management, and the Singapore Management University.