Tia Counts

As MSCI’s Chief Responsibility Officer, Tia oversees MSCI’s corporate responsibility policies, practices and initiatives, a role which includes guiding the company to achieve its net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goals and aligning culture and leadership goals with MSCI’s business outcomes. She focuses on helping MSCI and its clients navigate a world where responsibility, risk, and value creation are converging. Tia also leads employee engagement for the firm.

Tia, a managing director, combines a legal background and extensive experience navigating the financial, regulatory and governance terrain of the U.S., U.K. and EU to build and scale procedures and operations supporting MSCI’s global business objectives.

Previously, Tia developed and drove diversity strategy as the global head of diversity and inclusion for J.P. Morgan’s global asset and wealth management business. She also served as a senior lawyer and revenue producer specializing in complex, cross-asset class, derivatives at Morgan Stanley in New York and London. She began her career in private practice at Clifford Chance, a “magic circle” law firm, serving as a corporate finance attorney specializing in debt capital markets.

Tia earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Spanish from the University of California, Berkeley and her Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. A native of Los Angeles, she currently resides in London.