Nicholas Institute Staff

Jon A. Anda
Jon A. Anda recently joined Duke University to work on issues related to carbon as a financial market. Jon was previously President of the Environmental Markets Network, an organization set up within the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to build support in the financial community for market-based solutions to climate change.

Jon joined EDF in early 2007, after serving as a Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley. During his 20 year career at Morgan Stanley, he led a number of business units including Global Capital Markets, Corporate Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Investment Banking Asia, and Institutional Equities Asia. After joining the firm in 1986, he was named Managing Director in 1992 while serving as a generalist investment banker in the Firm’s Chicago office. Jon has worked with a wide range of clients including GE, Google, The Peoples Republic of China, and The Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Jon graduated from the University of Illinois in 1979 and received his MBA from Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management in 1980. After business school, Jon worked in Project Finance at Continental Illinois National Bank where he financed alternative energy projects during the last energy boom. He remains motivated by the valuable technology we might have today if oil prices hadn’t plummeted by the mid-80’s.

Jon is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Asia Society, where he has funded (and is working actively on) the new “Initiative for U.S. - China Cooperation on Energy and Climate”. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council of EDF.