Philip Kearns
Advisory Board Member
Australia
Philip Kearns Advisory Board Member since 2025. © Philip Kearns
Areas of Expertise
Finance, ESG, Education
Board Term
Since 2025Biography
After earning his PhD in econometrics, Philip spent the next 30 years in finance in New York – first at Goldman, Sachs, then Morgan Stanley, and the last 20 years at D.E.Shaw.
At Shaw, Philip had numerous roles, including running a quant research group, heading fixed income, and CIO of DES Investment Management. Combining his investment management expertise with his passion for the environment, Philip pursued a number of initiatives at Shaw – instituting carbon neutrality for D.E.Shaw management company as of 2008, helping design and bring to market ESG and low carbon investment funds.
Philip and his wife Grace have a long association with TNC and conservation, both serving on a number of boards of environmental organisations, including, for Philip, TNC’s New York board of trustees from 2008 to 2018.