Matthew Arnold
Principal
Sustainable Finance
Matthew Arnold is a co-founder and Director of Sustainable Finance Ltd. He works with financial institutions to manage environmental and social risk and to identify environmentally superior investment opportunities. His current clients include money center banks, investment banks, private investors and public multi-lateral banks.
Mr. Arnold was Chief Operating Officer at the World Resources Institute, a sustainable development think tank, where he was responsible for 140 employees, a $20 million budget and a $45 million endowment.
Mr. Arnold has served as an advisor on environmental and sustainability strategy for several other multinational corporations including DuPont, where he helped develop the organization’s sustainable growth strategy, and BP, where he helped business unit leaders to align with the company’s post-Amoco merger focus on greening the brand.
In 1990, he founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business (MEB) to help business schools and corporations integrate environmental issues into business strategy. In 1996, MEB merged with the World Resources Institute. Prior to 1990 he held positions in marketing with IBM, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, and in business development with Santa Fe Trading, Hong Kong.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of Forest Trends, a market maker for ecosystem services, a member of the US National Academy of Sciences Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability and a faculty member of the Prince of Wales Cambridge University Business Environment Program.
Mr. Arnold holds an AB degree in Psychobiology from Harvard College, an MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.