Matthew Arnold

Matt Arnold is the Head of the Office of Environmental Affairs at JP Morgan Chase. The environmental affairs team at JP Morgan Chase leads the firm’s efforts to be a leader among financial services companies in protecting the environment while enhancing business success. The team develops environmental policy and guidance for the business, supports clients to identify and mitigate environmental risk, and enhances environmental outcomes throughout the firm’s operations. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, Matthew Arnold was a Principal and leader of Sustainable Business Solutions at PwC. PwC helps clients achieve business success from their sustainability strategies and investments. They focus on revenue growth, cost reduction and risk mitigation in industrial, financial, airline, food and consumer product companies. Matt was a co-founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, which helps financial services companies to develop sustainability strategy, manage environmental and social risk and to identify environmentally superior investment opportunities. His clients include commercial and investment banks, insurers, real estate companies, industrial products and development banks. Sustainable Finance was acquired by PwC in December 2008. Matt was Chief Operating Officer at the World Resources Institute, a sustainable development think tank. He held positions in marketing with IBM, in investment banking with Merrill Lynch, and in business development with Santa Fe Trading, Hong Kong. Matt founded the Management Institute for Environment and Business, which was a pioneer in presenting environmental challenges as business opportunities to companies and business schools. Matt 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.