Ian Monroe
Ian is Etho Capital's President and Chief Investment Officer, as well as a co-founder of the Climate+Positive Investing Alliance (C+PIA), the rapidly growing global community working to decarbonize investment portfolios at the pace climate science says is necessary. Ian is also co-author of the college textbook Solving Climate Change: A Guide for Learners and Leaders, which came from his experiences teaching courses on climate solutions and sustainable investing at Stanford University for over a decade. Prior to Etho Capital, Ian founded Oroeco, an award-winning web and mobile platform that rewards users for helping solve climate change. Ian has also served as an advisor for several international sustainability certification standards, including Climate Neutral, Science Based Targets, and The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), and he has been awarded as an Echoing Green Climate Fellow, an Institutional Investor Rising Star, and one of TechRepublic's top 8 leaders in cleantech. Ian has consulted and spoken about scaling sustainability solutions for the United Nations, World Bank, the U.S. Department of State, and a wide range of companies and nonprofits, drawing inspiration from his research at Stanford, his experiences working on supply chains and sustainable technology in over two dozen countries around the world, and his family’s challenges with climate-driven wildfire, drought, and floods on their small farm in Northern California.