Sony Kapoor
Senior Associate
Sony is a Senior Associate at E3G, working on interdisciplinary issues at the intersection of macroeconomics, climate, energy, development, and finance.
Sony Kapoor is an influential macroeconomist, finance expert, development specialist and sustainability advisor with a long track record of successfully tackling policy, business, and societal challenges. His career spans banking, asset management, policymaking, strategy consulting, policy research, political advisory, and civil society across dozens of countries. He is CEO of the Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology & Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Professor of Climate, Geoeconomics & Finance at the European University Institute, Chief Economist for Worthwhile Capital Partners, Chairman of Re-Define, and a Trustee of Friends of Europe.
Sony has been a long-time advisor to several G-20 and EU governments, large institutional investors and has served several stints as an expert advisor to international organisations including the EU, the UN, the World Bank, the OECD, and the IMF. He is well-known for his agenda-setting keynotes, influential policymaker reports and incisive media commentary. He has been invited to write for publications that include The Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
Sony studied engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology as a National Talent Scholar, MBA at the Faculty of Management Studies as a Far Eastern Economic Review Scholar, and finance at the LSE as a Chevening Scholar.
His leadership in tackling the euro crisis, promoting financial reform, driving action on climate change, and improving development policy have led to recognition as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and as a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe. He has been inducted as a Fellow by the RSA, and was awarded an honorary fellowship by George Soros, for helping diffuse the Euro crisis, promote tax justice, and green finance.
Sony Kapoor is an influential macroeconomist, finance expert, development specialist and sustainability advisor with a long track record of successfully tackling policy, business, and societal challenges. His career spans banking, asset management, policymaking, strategy consulting, policy research, political advisory, and civil society across dozens of countries. He is CEO of the Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology & Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Professor of Climate, Geoeconomics & Finance at the European University Institute, Chief Economist for Worthwhile Capital Partners, Chairman of Re-Define, and a Trustee of Friends of Europe.
Sony has been a long-time advisor to several G-20 and EU governments, large institutional investors and has served several stints as an expert advisor to international organisations including the EU, the UN, the World Bank, the OECD, and the IMF. He is well-known for his agenda-setting keynotes, influential policymaker reports and incisive media commentary. He has been invited to write for publications that include The Economist, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg.
Sony studied engineering at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology as a National Talent Scholar, MBA at the Faculty of Management Studies as a Far Eastern Economic Review Scholar, and finance at the LSE as a Chevening Scholar.
His leadership in tackling the euro crisis, promoting financial reform, driving action on climate change, and improving development policy have led to recognition as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and as a European Young Leader by Friends of Europe. He has been inducted as a Fellow by the RSA, and was awarded an honorary fellowship by George Soros, for helping diffuse the Euro crisis, promote tax justice, and green finance.