Ian Monroe

President; Co-Founder; & Lecturer; Etho Capital; Climate+Positive Investing Alliance; & Stanford University

With a career spanning climate science, technology, policy, and finance, Ian Monroe has taught at Stanford University for over a decade and worked on climate challenges in over 30 countries. A pioneer in climate solution investing, Ian is the President and CIO of Etho Capital, which runs the ETHO ETF and some of the world's first and best performing deeply decarbonized index strategies. Working directly with family offices and institutional investors, Etho has helped decarbonize over $100 billion in assets, and Etho is now helping move even more capital into climate solutions by co-founding the new Climate+Positive Investing Alliance (PositiveClimate.org). Ian is also a Founder of Oroeco, an early personal climate solution technology platform, and Ian has advised the United Nations, World Bank IFC, governments, companies, investors, and the creation of several international sustainability standards, including Climate Neutral and Science Based Targets (SBTi). Beyond his work and graduate degrees in Earth Systems science from Stanford and the University of Oxford Artificial Intelligence Programme, Ian has also been educated by climate-fueled droughts and wildfires on his family’s small farm in California.

Ian's experiences scaling climate solutions are shared in the new book "Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders" and the SolveClimate.org community, which he co-created with Jonathan Koomey.