Sheldon Simon (Co-Chair)

Sheldon Simon, an advisory board member for the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS), is a Partner and Equity Analyst at Adage Capital Management L.P., a Boston-based money management firm. At Adage, Sheldon is responsible for investments in energy infrastructure as it relates to electric power and natural gas. Prior to joining Adage in 2002, he spent 18 years at Putnam Investments as an analyst and portfolio manager. He received his BS in Economics in 1979 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA in 1984 from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Sheldon was recently appointed to Boston University’s School of Public Health (SPH) Dean’s Advisory Board and acts as an advisor to BU’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE). In addition, Sheldon serves on the Board of Trustees at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston (BIDMC) where he co-chairs the Research Oversight Committee. He is also Co-Chairman and founder of the Men’s Collaborative to Cure Women’s Cancers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. At Penn, he served as Chairman of the National Advisory Board of the Netter Center for Community Partnership.